Camisea gas fields | |
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Country | Peru |
Offshore/onshore | Onshore |
Coordinates | 11°50′19.19″S 72°57′1.05″W / 11.8386639°S 72.9502917°W |
Operator | Pluspetrol |
Partners | Pluspetrol Hunt Oil Company SK Corporation Repsol YPF Tecpetrol Sonatrach |
Field history | |
Discovery | 1986 |
Start of production | 2004 |
Production | |
Estimated gas in place | 13,400×10 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.