Fossil gasoline

The main gasoline importing companies in Peru are Mobil Petroleum, Valero and Repsol. In the figure below, it can be observed how gasoline imports have increased significantly during the last five years. Intermediate or unfinished gasoline (mainly cracked naptha, derived from a fluid catalytic cracking process with a high content of olefins that can be desulferized for blending component), makes up an important proportion of the total amount. Peru’s external dependency on gasoline imports has increased during recent years. In 2022, around 57% of the consumption of gasoline was imported, as can be seen in the graph below. Most of Peru’s gasoline imports come from the United States, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration data, although some imports from the N