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The fields are currently yielding 20.6 mcm per day (Image: TotalEnergies)

TotalEnergies is serving as operator of CMA-1 del Fuego. It encompasses a total of 260 fields,
and has a 37.5% stake in the block. Its partners including Argo, Aries, Carina, Fénix, Orión,
are Wintershall Dea (Germany), with 37.5%, Orión Norte, Orión Oeste and Vega-Pléyade.
and and Pan American Energy (Argentina), Altogether, these sites are currently yielding
with 25%. about 20.6 mcm per day of gas, along with some
The CMA-1 licence area lies offshore in crude oil. As of December 31, 2020, CMA-1’s
the Austral basin, which borders Argentina’s gas reserves were estimated at 64.471bn cubic
southern provinces of Santa Cruz and Tierra metres. ™

PERU
USAID awards $100,000 grant to Peruvian

NGO to help clean up La Pampilla oil spill

THE US Agency for International Development
(USAID) has awarded a grant worth $100,000
to the Peruvian environmental fund Profonanpe
to support clean-up operations related to an oil
spill that occurred at La Pampilla earlier this
year. The funds are expected to fuel Profonanpe’s
collaboration with the National Service of Pro-
tected Natural Areas by the State (SERNANP)
and the National Forestry and Wildlife Service
(SERFOR) in an effort to mitigate the oil spill
and prevent damage to wildlife.
The spill occurred in late January, when the
Mare Doricum, an Italian-flagged Suezmax The spilled oil was headed for Repsol’s La Pampilla plant (Photo: Repsol)
tanker, attempted to unloaded a 1mn barrel
cargo of crude at the port of La Pampilla near An array of Peruvian NGOs will work
Lima for delivery to a refinery owned by Rep- together with Profonanpe, SERNANP and SER-
sol (Spain). Peru’s Environment Ministry has FOR to develop a framework for environmental
reported that the incident caused tens of thou- assessment and monitoring so that wildlife and
sands of oil to leak into the ocean, subsequently ecosystems in the surrounding areas can be pro-
causing the coastline to be contaminated. tected from further damage.

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