Tag: Eleodoro Mayorga

• Tuesday, February 17th 2015 - 05:40 UTC

  Peru asks Argentine oil company to leave conflict zone while it reassesses contract

  

  Peru will evaluate a natural gas contract it signed with Pluspetrol in 2005 and is asking the Argentine company to leave a restive Amazonian town following deadly protests, the government said on Thursday. Pluspetrol started exploratory activities in natural gas block 108 last year, upsetting locals in the town of Pichanaki who fear it will lead to pollution and hurt farming.

• Thursday, July 24th 2014 - 06:18 UTC

  Humala signs contract for pipeline that will make Peru a leading gas exporter of the region

  

  The consortium made up of Spanish energy company Enagas and Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht signed a contract on Wednesday with Peru's Energy and Mines Ministry for the construction and operation of a natural gas pipeline that will run from the Camisea gas fields to the Pacific port of Ilo.