Peruvian Natural Gas Pipeline Environmental and Social Impact Assessment

Among the keys to success on this challenging project was fostering the meaningful engagement of hundreds of community members — including indigenous communities — from various regions along the pipeline alignment.

Client

Peruvian South Pipeline Consortium

Project Status

Complete

The Pipeline Route

This Peruvian South Pipeline Consortium (Enagas-Odebrecht) project includes the construction, operation and maintenance of a 1,086-kilometer natural gas pipeline.

From Cusco through the regions of Arequipa and Moquegua, the pipeline route traverses mountains, jungle and an agricultural valley before reaching the coast at Tacna. In addition to navigating difficult terrain, project challenges included handling diverse areas of biological sensitivity in a variety of ecosystems and coordinating outreach along an alignment running through areas inhabited by indigenous communities.

Addressing Ecosystem and Biodiversity Issues

WSP USA developed the environmental and social impact assessment for the project to construct a new 100-kilometer line in the Cusco region, and conducted environmental baseline studies of the Puno Arequipa, Moquegua and Tacna pipeline segments, totalling 600 kilometers. We assembled a team of 35 environmental specialists with more than 50 local professionals to address ecosystem and biodiversity issues and conducted more than 50 workshops and public hearings to invite citizen participation and to include indigenous communities in the process.