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Article: First Camisea Natural Gas Arrives in Lima Ahead of Schedule.
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- The Oil Daily
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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NEW YORK -- The first natural gas from the Amazon arrived more than a month ahead of schedule in Lima last Thursday, completing the first stage of Peru's largest infrastructure project since the Incas built Machu Picchu. Gas from the Camisea fields in the Amazon is being piped across the Andes for power generation and industrial uses in Lima, while liquids will be exported.
Phase I of the Camisea project cost $1.6 billion, dwarfing any other current project in Latin America. Upstream partners Pluspetrol, Hunt, SK Corp. and Techint are joined by Tractebel, Sonatrach and local firm Grana y Montero in the pipeline consortium, while Tractebel holds the distribution ...