About

Officially open for business in 2010, Peru LNG is a $3.8bn liquefied natural gas plant that was the first of its kind in South America upon commencing operations. Solange Cuadros Ramírez is legal manager for this pioneering project, and brings with her a wealth of experience in the energy and hydrocarbons sectors. Indeed, she previously had a five-year stint at Peru LNG as a legal counsel from 2007 to 2012, after which she took on positions in the in-house legal teams of GCZ Energía and Energy Development Corporation before taking on her current role in January 2017. Cuadros considers ‘the legal support provided in the social management of the project’ at Peru LNG as one of her career highlights, as the area used by the project contained a number of local communities that would be affected by it. As such: ‘The social challenges faced by the project were very high and the constant support of the legal area in that regard was important. I had the opportunity to participate in negotiations with the communities involved and this taught me to consider the social nuance in the legal advice we provide’. She also speaks to the improvements and innovations she has made to the in-house legal team since re-joining in 2017: ‘I have sought to bring the legal department even closer to internal clients, as I believe that an internal lawyer should be close to the other departments of the company as this will allow us to be strategic partners to the business’. As well as this, Cuadros mentions her role on ‘the construction of the LNG Loading Station in Pampa Melchorita’ as a particularly significant project that she has taken a lead on. ‘The station required an investment of $17m, has a capacity of 240,000 gallons per day of liquefied natural gas and is enabled for the loading of trucks of 13 thousand gallons capacity’, she explains.