Camisea Gas Project

Camisea gas fields
CountryPeru
Offshore/onshoreOnshore
Coordinates11°50′19.19″S 72°57′1.05″W / 11.8386639°S 72.9502917°W / -11.8386639; -72.9502917
OperatorPluspetrol
PartnersPluspetrol
Hunt Oil Company
SK Corporation
Repsol YPF
Tecpetrol
Sonatrach
Field history
Discovery1986
Start of production2004
Production
Estimated gas in place13,400×10^9 cu ft (380×10^9 m3)

The Camisea Gas Project extracts and transports natural gas originating near the Urubamba River in Megantoni District, La Convención Province in the Cusco Region of Peru. The project, which cost nearly four billion dollars by 2015, developed in a remote, forested region of the Amazon Basin which has a population of mostly Indigenous people.