After the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, announced the regions that will be part of the technical report that will be prepared for the development of the infrastructure for the massification of natural gas, which includes Cusco, Puno, Apurímac, Arequipa, Moquegua , Tacna, Ayacucho and Ucayali, there are still two regions that are waiting to be considered in the Executive’s plan.
These are Junín and Huancavelica, which were included in the previous gas project better known as Seven Regions, as well as in the new design presented by the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) at the beginning of September.
Precisely before this, the president of the National Assembly of Regional Governors (ANGR), Carlos Rua Carbajal, told La República that once the ministerial cabinet led by Mirtha Vásquez obtains the vote of confidence, he will seek to meet with President Castillo so that you can specify which are the regions that will be considered in the massification of natural gas.
“We want everyone to be included,” said Rua Carbajal, who is the regional governor of Ayacucho, and recalled that the Minem had considered that this year the overcrowding in Ayacucho and Ucayali would begin. “We have gas valves in the province of Huamanga and that made it easier for us to start in Ayacucho and Ucayali,” he noted.
For his part, Amadeo Arrarte, Partner & Country Manager of Calden Consultoría, said that it is possible to develop infrastructure for massification, but it must be technically well thought out.
He considered that Junín and Huancavelica should be added to the plan, because the more infrastructure of gas distribution networks the country has, the better, since this way more people will be able to benefit. However, he stressed that prior to the development of the project, the respective studies and the necessary dialogues must be carried out.
Huge challenge
On infrastructure development, the Minem proposed in September -during its presentation in Congress- that it be Petroperú Whoever is in charge of this process. In said presentation it was specified that it would not be financed with its own resources but with those of the Social Energy Inclusion Fund (FISE), a similar scheme that is applied in the southwest concession (Moquegua-Arequipa and Tacna), where Petroperú received the order in November, 2020.
“It is a huge challenge for any company, it has nothing to do with whether it is foreign or national, and if Petroperú is going to take it on, my recommendation is that it take it on after having studied it well, everything coordinated and especially very fine yarn”, Arrarte pointed out.
According to the latest design presented by Minem, between infrastructure and installation costs, the planned investment is US $ 1,021 million. In addition, it would benefit 400,000 families in five years of operation.
In the opinion of the former president of Petroperú Humberto Campodónico, the investments they contemplate the construction of a gas pipeline network from Ayacucho to Puno which will benefit the project, making it viable taking into account the concept of social profitability.
Petroperú and its temporary administration
Currently, Petroperú is the temporary administrator of the southwest concession, which covers Moquegua, Arequipa, Tacna. As of July of this year, it has 12,846 domestic connections to natural gas. Residential users with this service are expected to reach 45,333 by the end of 2022, according to projections from the Ministry of Energy and Mines.
Meanwhile, by 2025 the domestic connections to natural gas in Tacna, Arequipa and Moquegua will reach 105,333 users.
At the national level, Minem expects that by 2025 there will be 2 million 585,058 home connections.
The numbers
84% of the natural gas connections are in Lima and Callao.
40% less polluting is natural gas compared to LPG.
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