The Manufactured Gas Company of CUPET announced a complete shutdown of its two production plants in Havana, which will leave gas service unavailable for residents of seven municipalities in the capital for several hours.
According to the official advisory, the interruption will begin at 10:00 PM this Thursday and will last until 4:00 AM on Friday, a six-hour window during which customers in Habana Vieja, Centro Habana, Cerro, Diez de Octubre, Plaza de la Revolución, Playa, and Marianao will be without service.
The company attributed the shutdown to the need for "maintenance and calibration of an automatic pressure regulation control valve at one of the stations that make up the supply system."
The document specifies that both distribution networks — the Habana network and the Playa-Marianao network — will be affected simultaneously.
Once the work is completed, the company warned that the restoration of service will be gradual, without specifying an estimated recovery time for each municipality.
In its statement, the company indicated that "these efforts aim to improve the quality and safety of the service provided to the public," although for Havana residents, each new gas interruption worsens a domestic situation that has already experienced months of accelerated decline.
The impact of this cut is particularly sensitive given the energy context that Cuba is experiencing.
Manufactured gas —commonly known as "street gas"— is an exclusive service in Havana that serves about 208,000 customers and operates through underground pipelines that do not rely on electricity to function.
This makes it, for many Havana residents, the only cooking option during the prolonged blackouts that in 2026 have reached up to 20 hours a day in the capital.
The interruption this Thursday is the latest in a series of outages that have become recurrent. Last June, a failure due to an "unforeseen technical force majeure" in the natural gas delivery system left thousands of customers in the capital without service.
Before, there was a scheduled shutdown of Plant No. 1 for the replacement of sections and valves, which affected the entire Havana network overnight.
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