The head of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem), Oscar Vera Gargurevich, announced that the Talara lots, I, VI and Z-69, will not be awarded directly to Petroperú, but that an international bidding process will be carried out. In this way, the Government goes back on its initial decision of direct award.
“It is in our interest as a Government to obtain the greatest benefits for our country. (…) However, given the request for transparency, given the claims from the sectors that we have seen all these days in the media, we as a Government are open to investment, We believe in private capital investment, and we do not want to show that we do not want it, that is why it has been defined that the process be carried out as requested. and that’s what we’re going to do,” he explained. Vera Gargurevich at a conference.
In addition, the official specified that Perupetro has authorization to carry out, according to its regulations, a direct negotiation or a call and when negotiations began with Petroperú it was because “at that time it was the best option.”
“We know that the corresponding evaluations were carried out, technical, economic and financial, legal evaluation, and all of this has been completed with all the steps in this process,” he said.
Vera Gargurevich He also indicated that the production of the batches from the 90s until now, went from around 120,000 barrels to 40,000 more barrels, showing a significant decline. In that period the State paid US$11.6 billion for crude oil, which benefited the companies that were in charge of the operations by US$5,568 million.
“The facilities that were delivered to the companies that have been operating have been left in great deterioration. A technical report prepared by a company that has been hired to review the state, points out that practically 50% of the assets are already disused, they are in scrap metal”said.
Finally, it was specified that upon concluding the contracts for the lots, the Petroperu operations, while Perupetro will be responsible for establishing the bidding schedule, a call in which the state company may also participate.
Source: Larepublica
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