Peru has the most oil and gas projects heading into production in the Amazon, according to a new data set published by the Stockholm Environment Institute. At 85 blocks in pre-production in the rainforest, that’s more than the 68 in Colombia and 53 in Brazil.
Peru has 173 oil and gas lease blocks in total, 59% of them located in its Amazonian region, covering 48 million hectares (119 million acres) of forest, or more than a third of the country’s total area. In the Brazilian Amazon, lease blocks cover 28 million hectares (69 million acres), and in Colombia 18 million hectares (44 million acres).
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