{"id":1469,"date":"2018-03-08T17:10:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T17:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lipigas.com\/noticias-y-enventos\/lipigas-incrementa-ebitda-en-12-en-2017\/"},"modified":"2018-11-05T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:49:06","slug":"4q17-lipigas-increases-ebitda-by-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lipiandes.com\/en\/noticias-y-enventos\/4q17-lipigas-increases-ebitda-by-12\/","title":{"rendered":"4Q17: Lipigas increases EBITDA by 12%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Empresas Lipigas S.A. announced, on Wednesday March 7, 2017, its consolidated financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>EBITDA reached CLP 87,499 million, a 12.0% increase compared to the previous year (CLP 78,118 million). Consolidated LPG sales volume increases by 3.6% ans consolidated NG sales volume in equivalent LPG tons (including sales of network natural gas, compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas) grows by 3.1%. Income after taxes increases by 10.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Angel Mafucci, general manager of Empresas Lipigas said: &#8220;We closed a very positive year for Lipigas. The commercial and financial results stood behind us. We increased our LPG sales volume by 3.6% and our EBITDA by 12.0%. LPG sales in Chile increased by 4.7%. Although part of this increase is due to a winter season with lower temperatures, it also reflects the consolidation of our strategy of closeness with end-customers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the year we also began the natural gas distribution service to clients in Puerto Montt and Osorno, we began operating in Conc\u00f3n our first small-scale DG power plant (PMDG for its acronym in Spanish) and in January of this year we partnered to materialize our first LPG-based power plant project for a mining client in the Coquimbo region. In short, we continue to develop our strategy of providing our customers with a wide range of solutions that meet their energy needs, backed by a renowned and reliable brand such as Lipigas&#8221;, concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empresas Lipigas S.A. announced, on Wednesday March 7, 2017, its consolidated financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2017. EBITDA reached CLP 87,499 million, a 12.0% increase compared to the previous year (CLP 78,118 million). Consolidated LPG sales volume increases by 3.6% ans consolidated NG sales volume in equivalent LPG tons (including sales [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipiandes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipiandes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipiandes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipiandes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipiandes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lipiandes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/lipiandes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipiandes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipiandes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipiandes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}