About

A long-standing legal manager with 27 years of experience and an expert in natural gas transportation matters, Renzo Viani is responsible for managing the legal team that supports Transportadora de Gas del Perú’s (TGP) lucrative liquefied natural gas operations. Other senior team members include legal deputy manager Julio Vargas Perusina, who has 23 years of professional experience in the oil and gas industry, primarily within multinational company Occidental Petroleum Company, and from 2007 with TGP. Luis Miguel Velapatiño Ñuflo serves as the legal and regulatory coordinator, and has ten years of professional experience in the oil and gas industry. The department, Viani explains, ‘is the guardian of the fulfilment of a culture of integrity, respect for the law, care for the rights, goods and assets of the company and, above all, respect for the people that make up the organisation and the stakeholders’. Amongst many large impactful projects in the country, one of the team’s most notable activities involves the negotiations and final agreements with 24 native communities in the jungle area regarding environmental claims, ending with agreements to develop sustainability projects to the benefit of the communities. The 24 projects are currently in the implementation process. Remarkably, the legal team also worked on the Camisea project, which is the biggest energy project in the Peruvian history. It participated in all the processes carried out during the project, amounting to an investment of almost US$800m, such as the construction projects of the largest transportation system for natural gas pipelines and natural gas liquids in Peru and the expansion of pipeline transport capacity amounting to an additional US$500m. ‘We are very proud to be part of an organisation [such as] TGP, and in particular, the legal team. Within the team, each member, regardless [of] seniority, always has something to say, to comment and to share their opinion, [which] always will be heard and taken to discuss and form legal criteria to benefit the company. The respect to each other, the responsibility for the duty to be fulfilled and the permanent improvement of ourselves and our internal processes are the key concepts that guides our daily activities’, concludes Viani.