Peru

The board of ailing state-owned company Petroleos del Peru submitted its resignation on Tuesday, Bloomberg News reported. “As several days have passed without the government making a statement, the directors appointed by the general shareholders meeting, unanimously, have presented our resignation,” the members said in a statement.
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Peru’s struggling state-owned oil company is asking the government to convert some of its loans into equity and push back deadlines to avoid running out of cash this year, Bloomberg News reported. Petroleos del Peru SA has been navigating a worsening liquidity crisis for years, tied to the construction of a brand new refinery that came in over budget and was repeatedly delayed. “We have to push back the deadlines of previous debts with the government, that’s what will help us afford operating until the end of the year,” Oliver Stark, Petroperu’s new chairman, told Bloomberg in an interview.
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