The president of the board of directors of Petroperú, Pedro Chira Fernandezdenounced that 100% of the assets of Lot Z-2B of Talara, operated by the company Savia Perú, are in dilapidated condition just two months before the end of its 30-year concession contract.
In a press conference held last weekend, the head of the state oil company reported that, recently, an independent company specialized in asset evaluation was hired to verify the conditions under which the offshore operation is returned to the Peruvian State.
The results were “disappointing“, according to Chira. According to a first verification, at least 50% were “obsolete”, so he announced a collection process for administrative oversight. There is already a preliminary calculation, and the marine platforms will follow the same course.
“As a Peruvian oil worker and native of Talar, it made me very sad, and I expressed this to the company representatives: 50% of the assets in junk condition, and the other 50%, which they continue to use to this day, in poor to fair condition“criticized the engineer.
In this sense, Chira stated that the company Sapwhose parent company is the transnational De Jong Capital LLC, has been summoned to clarify the deterioration of the assets that previously belonged to Petroperú, and which must be reverted on November 15.
“This is what they are leaving us with. The company has been summoned to make its defenses to find out if, in fact, there was maintenance and the deterioration was due to normal use. Definitely, this is not going to be a clean slate, and there is a lot of fabric to be cut here“he asserted.
Precisely, this Monday, September 18, Petroperú has a scheduled meeting with representatives of Perupetro and the company’s owners. Sapet (a subsidiary of the Chinese company CNPC, which has Lot Lot VI/VIIto begin the process of transferring technical and computer information.
The Peruvian Government has anticipated that lots VI, Z-2B (which will be renamed Z-69, with an additional area for exploration) and X will become 100% operated by Petroperú.
Talara: Petroperú and a history of privatization
In 1993, a total of 1,556 active Lot Z-2B They passed into the hands of the Petrotech company, which later became Savia after being absorbed by Knoc of South Korea and Ecopetrol of Colombia, in 2009.
The contract specified that Petrotech had the obligation to ensure the normal, effective, continuous and total maintenance of the assets subject to lease. Any repairs necessary to maintain the assets were “at the expense and risk” of the private party.
“Upon termination of the contract, for whatever reason, the goods will be returned to Petroperú (…), with no more wear than the product of their ordinary use in Petrotech’s operations and without additional liability for Petrotech,” says the seventh clause.
It is worth remembering that, during the privatization process, Petroperu It was stripped of almost all of its main assets, without this implying that it abandoned its commitments to bring fuel to regions of the country where the private sector does not participate.
The most important assets sold were the producing oil lots (Lot 8 and Lot X, XI), as well as the La Pampilla Refinery. The oil fleet (Transoceánica), the gas distributor (Solgas) and 85 service stations (among others) were also sold.
According to the hydrocarbon specialist Humberto Campodónicobetween 1992 and 2005 alone, an economic loss of US$1,324 million is estimated for Petroperú due to this privatization process.
Source: Larepublica
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