Overview
- ProInversión is preparing an asset-promotion plan for this month after meeting creditors and providers to shape business units that could attract partners.
- The MEF targets roughly a 40% cut to payroll spending focused on managerial layers and cites about S/270 million a year in non-salary benefits while requesting Contraloría oversight.
- Private companies have signaled interest in operating the Oleoducto Norperuano and in storage-for-debt arrangements, and the Talara refinery is being explored for regional service deals including with Ecuador.
- Unions and civic groups escalated protests in Lima and Talara and have called a national strike for January 19, arguing the measures amount to a covert privatization that could raise fuel prices.
- Governance flux continues as reports on general manager Rita López Saavedra’s resignation conflict with accounts that she remains in post, and the government named Carlos Niño Neira Ramos to lead Perú-Petro’s board with an additional MEF representative appointed.