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Exclusive-Colombia’s Ecopetrol exploring participation in offshore wind auction

May 6, 2024

U.S. News BOGOTA – Colombia’s majority state-owned energy company Ecopetrol is analyzing its potential direct participation in the Andean country’s first-ever offshore wind auction, the company said in a statement to Reuters. The government of President Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first leftist leader, has said it wants to wean the Andean country from its dependence on fossil fuels while ensuring energy

Colombian offshore natural gas discovery smaller than anticipated, Ecopetrol determines

February 23, 2024

World Oil (Bloomberg) – Colombia’s state energy company, Ecopetrol SA, has determined that a natural gas deposit in the Caribbean Sea that officials were counting on to shore up the nation’s dwindling reserves is significantly smaller than initially estimated. Officials said Thursday that they are now reevaluating the discovery, named Orca-1. In the processes of working to verify its size,

Colombia’s Ecopetrol to invest up to $6.7 bln in 2024

December 1, 2023

Nasdaq BOGOTA – Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol ECO.CN will invest between $5.7 billion and $6.7 billion and produce up to 730,000 barrels per day equivalent (boepd) in 2024, it said in a statement. A majority of that spending, about $4.8 billion, will go toward keeping production between 725,000 and 730,000 boepd, the company’s refineries at between 420,000 and 430,000 barrels

Colombia’s Ecopetrol hails new oil and gas discovery

August 10, 2023

Nasdaq BOGOTA – Colombia’s majority state-owned oil company Ecopetrol on Thursday reported a new oil and gas discovery in Putumayo province. The Alqamari-2 well was drilled to a depth of 9,287 feet and saw daily flow of 1,800 barrels of oil, Ecopetrol said in a statement. The oil is a light hydrocarbon. The rate of associated gas that the well

Colombia’s Ecopetrol must grow oil, gas output to fund transition, chairman says

March 23, 2023

Reuters BOGOTA – Colombia’s Ecopetrol must focus on growing its oil and gas production to fund the transition towards renewables, said Saul Kattan, the chairman of the majority state-run energy company. Colombia could be a world leader in production of renewables like wind and green hydrogen, Kattan told Reuters late on Wednesday, but the company, the largest in the country,

Colombia’s Ecopetrol 2020 net profit down 87.3%, to invest up to $15 billion by 2023

February 24, 2021

Reuters BOGOTA – Colombia’s majority state-run oil company, Ecopetrol, will make up to $15 billion of organic investment between 2021 and 2023, it said on Tuesday, as it reported an 87.3% drop in 2020 net profit.The company will invest $12 billion to $15 billion over the next three years, Ecopetrol said in a statement, averaging $4 billion to $5 billion

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Colombia to hold bidding round for investigative fracking projects

November 11, 2020

Reuters BOGOTA – Colombia will hold a second bidding round to potentially grant contracts to companies interested in exploring non-conventional oil and gas deposits, using techniques like fracking, the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) said. Majority state-owned oil company Ecopetrol ECO.CN, Exxonmobil XOM.N, and Drummond already have contracts for investigative projects and may submit offers in this new round, as can other companies,

Ecopetrol aims to drill 100 wells in U.S. Permian Basin by end-2021: CEO

September 14, 2020

Reuters Colombian oil company Ecopetrol SA aims to drill a total 100 wells by end-2021 in the Permian Basin of West Texas as global oil prices recover, Chief Executive Felipe Bayon said on Monday. Global oil prices plunged to decade lows, with U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) dropping to negative $40 a barrel on April 20 as supplies ballooned while

Colombia’s Ecopetrol to increase exploratory wells, roll over debt due in 2020

February 27, 2020

Reuters BOGOTA – Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol ECO.CN will look to increase the number of exploratory wells it has planned through 2022 to up to 45 in a bid to further bolster reserves, company executives said on Wednesday. Ecopetrol will also roll over $434 million in debt set to expire this year, the executives said. Ecopetrol drilled 20 wells

Occidental reports continued momentum executing against key strategic and financial initiatives

November 14, 2019

Nov. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/- (“Occidental” or “the Company”) (NYSE: OXY) today, provided an update on its speed and momentum executing against key strategic and financial initiatives designed to maximize shareholder value following the close of its acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum (“Anadarko”) on August 8, 2019. Occidental’s incremental progress following third-quarter earnings includes: Ecopetrol Joint Venture: Occidental has completed the transaction to

Ecopetrol and Occidental complete investment agreement in the US Permian Basin

November 14, 2019

BOGOTÁ, Colombia, Nov. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) (“the Company”) informs that today it completed the joint venture transaction announced last July 31, 2019. Through this deal, the Company and Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE: OXY) agreed to form a strategic alliance or Joint Venture (“JV”) for the development of unconventional reservoirs in approximately 97,000 acres of the Permian Basin in the State of Texas (US). For these purposes, Ecopetrol Permian

Occidental and Ecopetrol Team Up in the Midland

August 1, 2019

By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Occidental Petroleum and Ecopetrol S.A. form joint venture in the Midland Basin Occidental Petroleum Corporation (stock ticker: OXY), the fourth largest public E&P by market capitalization, has formed a joint venture (JV) with Colombia-based Ecopetrol S.A. (stock ticker: EC) to develop 97,000 net acres of Occidental’s Midland Basin properties, subject to

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