PETROPERÚ addressed the issue of environmental sustainability in the hydrocarbon sector

PETROPERÚ carried out the second day of its cycle of technical conferences, called Energy Talks, this time within the framework of the activities for World Environment Day, having as speakers the Chief of Environmental Transport and Distribution of the state company, Juan Gallarday and Francisco Dallmeier, PhD, Director of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, from the USA, who addressed the topic “Biodiversity management and environmental sustainability in the hydrocarbon subsector”.

Through PETROPERÚ's Facebook Live, Gallarday analyzed the future of the oil and gas industry, towards the new global policies of operational sustainability, in accordance with the new clean sources of energy generation. He gave as an example the case of the state company, whose purpose is to promote biodiversity and sustainability as the focus of a new environmental integration.

"It will be future generations that will benefit from the advancement of biodiversity and this will go hand in hand with solid and mature institutions," he said while stating that PETROPERÚ is governed based on six principles of environmental management, which include - among others - the efficient use of energy, a good integral management of waste and the conservation of biodiversity, in accordance with the United Nations sustainable development objectives.

"In the company there is a whole plan of continuous improvement and its focus ranges from the mitigation of the impacts to the environmental compensation," he specified, emphasizing that the state-owned company reaffirms its commitment to consolidate and strengthen its sustainability and excellence strategies operational.

For his part, Francisco Dallmeier, Director of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, argued -from Washington DC- that, worldwide, there is an alarming extinction of species and this is due, in part, to the change in ecosystem functions; hence the importance of preserving biodiversity, without which, he argued, there would be neither health nor economy.

Dallmeier highlighted the contribution of his institution in the preservation of millions of species, which are part of the ecosystem and, in that sense, highlighted the efforts of companies, in this case of PETROPERÚ, which work on various strategies that allow the development of a sustainable industry.

It should be noted that this cycle of conferences includes presentations on relevant topics in the management of PETROPERÚ and its main ongoing projects, by its officials and experts from the energy and hydrocarbons sector, who participate as guests.