Under pressure from environmental groups, the Peruvian government decided to set conditions for the construction of a gas fractionation plant along the Ica coast, near the Paracas National Reserve, in the south. Environmentalists presented 65 technical objections to the Pluspetrol firm's construction project, 16 of which were backed by the governmental National Institute of Natural Resources.

Pluspetrol, which holds the contract to market the gas to be extracted in Camisea, in the southeastern Peruvian jungles, must demonstrate that it possesses appropriate technology to minimize the environmental impact of the gas plant.