Hunt Oil Peru On Rating Watch Negative

(Fitch, 29.Sep.2021) — Fitch Ratings has placed the ratings for Hunt Oil Company of Peru L.L.C., Sucursal del Peru’s (HOCP) on Rating Watch Negative (RWN), including the ‘BBB’ Long-Term Foreign and Local Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) and the ‘BBB’ USD600 million senior unsecured notes due 2028. The RWN reflects […]

Peru PM Warns Gas Sector

(Reuters, 26.Sep.2021) — Peruvian Prime Minister Guido Bellido on Sunday said that companies which exploit natural gas in Peru will need to agree to pay higher taxes or else face nationalizations, a sharp warning to the sector from the new leftist government. Bellido told Reuters in August that the government […]

LNG-short Peru Rationing Gas Distribution

(Argus, 24.May.2021) — One of Peru’s top natural gas distributors is rationing supply and exploring options after the early May outage of the Peru LNG liquefaction complex on which it relies. Gases del Pacifico-Quavii, a subsidiary of Colombia’s Promigas, lost supply around 7 May when a compressor broke down at […]

Camisea Has Contributed Royalties Of $10.5bn

(Energy Analytics Institute, 7.Aug.2020) — Camisea has reportedly contributed $10.45bn in terms of royalties during the 16 years it has been operating in Peru, website La RepĂşblica reported 7 August 2020. This figure represent 0.5% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), the media reported. Camisea’s gas exploitation takes place […]

Peru Deploys Army To Safeguard Strategic Gas Line

(Argus, 19.Dec.2019) — Peru’s government has deployed army troops to safeguard a jungle stretch of the Camisea natural gas and gas liquids pipelines from potential attacks under a 60-day emergency declaration. The lines are critical to Peru’s LNG and LPG export businesses, which are operating normally. The emergency measure covers […]

Camisea Gas Compression Plant Online by YE:15

(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 29.Aug.2013) – The Camisea gas compression plant will be ready in December 2015. The plant will require an investment of $318 mln and will allow the gas pipeline to increase its capacity by 50%, reported the daily newspaper El Comercio. Upon completion, the gas compression […]