Oil reprivatization is diluted in Congress

They are left alone. Up to three members of the Congressional Energy and Mines Commission reportedly decided to back down and withdraw their signatures from the controversial bill that seeks to extend the current operators of oil lots for an additional 10 years and, additionally, deny access to Petroperu to these operations.

One of them, as he was able to know The Republic, is parliamentarian Pedro Martínez Talavera, who, despite sharing the Popular Action store with the author of the initiative and head of the working group, Carlos Alva Rojas, sent a rectification written last January 27 to eject from it. A week earlier, Petroperú had expressed his discomfort at what he considered the drafting of a “coercive” autograph and “lobbyist tint” for the interests of the nation.

“To express my decision to withdraw my signature from PL804/2021-GR Law, which modifies articles 8 and 22 of the Single Ordered Text of Law 26221, Organic Hydrocarbons Law, decreed to the Commission of Energy and Mines on November 24, 2021″, Congressman Martínez disassociated himself.

discussion in limbo

From the Congress, they do not clarify what will be the agenda from now on that the group will follow until the change of legislature. Until the closing of this edition, it was not even certain what the issues that would be reviewed tomorrow, Wednesday, would be.

In addition to the initiative to perpetuate the exploitation of hydrocarbons in private hands, the project of the Law to Promote the Massification of Natural Gas is dormant.

keys

Partners. The original project granted Petroperú a 25% stake in the reprivatized lots. In the last modification, zero. Timing. Initiative arrives when the concession of six lots in Talara, around the corner from the new refinery.

Wells. The oil income that Petroperú would no longer receive would be US$255 million per year, according to UNMSM researcher Jorge Manco.