The 2023 edition of the Perumin mining convention will receive its nearly 60,000 convention attendees with an agenda of the Peruvian mining that little has changed since last year’s edition. The 2022 convention left the data that Peru had regressed to last place in the competitiveness index compared to other mining countries due to the […]
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60% of taps without LPG supply in Lambayeque: why doesn’t fuel reach this region?
The taps report long queues of carriers with their vehicles to supply them with LPG and continue moving. Join the WhatsApp channel of La República Price of the dollar today in Peru: what is the exchange rate for this Friday, September 1? MEF rejects another AFP withdrawal: “Of every S/1,000 you withdraw, S/18,000 is from […]
Will Ucayali have domestic natural gas? This said the Ministry of Energy and Mines
The massification of domestic natural gas in Peru it is still in process. This is due to the need of thousands of homes to obtain energy at a lower cost for domestic use and economic activities. One of the next regions to benefit would be Ucayali, a place where this problem was recently analyzed during […]
Quavii: gas distributor refuses to increase volumes for electricity generation
Quaviiresponsible for the massification of natural gas in the north of the country, considered that the proposal presented by the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) to prioritize the supply of this energy for electricity generation in the event of an El Niño phenomenon “could put at risk the continuity of the public natural gas […]
Perupetro accepts letter of interest from Petroperú for blocks I, VI and Z-69 of Talara
While the Perupetro agency was advancing with the private bidding process for lots V and VII of Talara, Petroperu presented its letter of interest to operate 100% and through direct negotiation blocks I, VI and Z-69 (an extension of Block Z-2B), whose joint production is around 8,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd). The documentation […]
Wholesale LPG may be sold for domestic use due to shortages due to abnormal waves
He Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) implemented measures to guarantee the national supply of LPG, which has been affected by abnormal waves that make it impossible for the normal development of fuel loading and unloading activities from tankers in the main terminals, such as the Multibuoy Terminal. Through Ministerial Resolution No. 272-2023-MINEM/DM, Minem exempted […]
The State should have invested S/9,806 per inhabitant with the taxes generated by mining
Since 2005, Peru’s mining regions have received billions in canons and royalties, taxes paid by extractive companies to the state. The Gérens graduate school carried out the per capita per inhabitant exercise in six regions located in southern Peru. How much money would correspond to each inhabitant of Arequipa, Apurímac, Moquegua, Tacna, Puno and Cusco? […]
Peru could have a new copper mine in 2025 with Zafranal
The National Maje Authoritys (Autodema) ended the procedure that sought to annul the temporary use of more than 12,000 hectares for the Zafranal mining project in the Arequipa mountains. This investment is in its culminating phases of evaluation. If the last permits are obtained, the first works will begin in 2025. They will add 441 […]
Moquegua led mining investment in Peru in April 2023
He Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) reported that, as of the fourth month of the year, Moquegua ranked first in mining investment in the country, with an amount exceeding US$204 million, amounting to 17.5% of the total participation of US$1,170 million. Regarding copper mining production in April, Moquegua ranked third with 15.8%, with Anglo […]
Peruvian copper and a latent African threat
This week, it was learned that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could displace Peru as the world’s second largest copper producer in no more than five years. The information, shared by Wood Mackenzie, indicates that the extraction of the African red metal almost equaled that of Peru in 2022, where 2 million 438,631 tons […]