How could the Ministry of Energy and Mining’s upcoming development projects be impacted?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | Carlos Gálvez Pinillos, Vice-President and CFO, Minas Buenaventura: Interview from The Report: Peru 2017
Interviews & Viewpoints | Carlos Temboury, Director and Chairman, Enel Generación: Interview from The Report: Peru 2017
Articles & Analysis | Removing red tape to maximise Peru's mining potential from The Report: Peru 2017
The mining sector can be described as one of the main engines of the Peruvian economy as it accounts for 12% of total GDP. It creates direct employment for 174,000 workers and indirectly accounts for another 1.5m jobs. In 2016 mining exports totalled $23.8bn – 65% of the country’s total merchandise exports.
Interviews & Viewpoints | Gonzalo Tamayo, Minister of Energy and Mines: Interview from The Report: Peru 2017
To what extent do low gas prices affect the ability of the government to diversify the energy mix?
Articles & Analysis | Peru's mining sector looks to become primary copper supplier in Latin America from The Report: Peru 2017
Copper production in Peru is on an upward trend. As a result of a big expansion in output in 2015, Peru overtook China to become the world’s second-largest copper producer. That increase was mainly due to new capacity at the Las Bambas project, owned by Chinese-Australian company MMG, and at the Cerro Verde mine, controlled by Freeport-McMoRan...
The advent of plentiful natural gas has led to an evolution of the energy sector. Among President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s key pledges in the 2016 election campaign was the “massification of natural gas” to serve residents and industrial users across southern Peru. Another feature of Peru’s policy focus is to diversify gas exports, including the potential renegotiation of the country’s...