Houston Chronicle California oil major Chevron has entered into a deal to sell its natural gas assets in the South American nation of Colombia. In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Chevron confirmed the sale of its stake in a joint venture with Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol. Under the deal, Chevron is selling its 43 percent share of the Guajira
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
From The Houston Chronicle Occidental Petroleum reported a $635 million quarterly profit that dipped 25 percent from the year prior, but the focus still remains on Oxy’s $38 billion acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum that could close in August. Houston-based Oxy said it plans to close the Anadarko deal next week after the scheduled Aug. 8 vote of Anadarko shareholders to
From Reuters Occidental Petroleum Corp, which is battling activist investor Carl Icahn over its $38 billion purchase of Anadarko Petroleum, reported a 14% fall in core profit on Wednesday, as higher crude prices and volumes were offset by adjustments to derivatives contracts and lower natural gas prices. Core income fell to $729 million, or 97 cents per share, in the
GeoPark Announces Second Quarter 2019 Operational Update
Ecopetrol reports discovery of crude in Boranda-2 ST well at Rionegro, Santander
Arrow Exploration Corp. Arrow Exploration Corp. (stock ticker: AXL:CA), operating in Colombia via its 100% owned subsidiary Carrao Energy S.A., announced that the 11-day production test of its Rio Cravo Este-1 (RCE-1) exploration well had concluded June 9. RCE-1 is located on the Tapir block in the Llanos basin. Source: Arrow Exploration The well was originally spud on April 25
From Reuters Shell has sold 40 percent of its participation in two offshore oil exploration contracts in Colombia to Noble Energy, which will also operate the blocs, the government said on Tuesday. Colombia recently modified contractual terms for offshore exploration and launched a permanent bidding process in an effort to boost its long-stagnant oil sector. Neither the companies nor the
From Reuters Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol SA is looking to spend $500 million in exploring unconventional deposits over the next three years, its chief executive said on Tuesday, starting with pilot programs in the Magdalena Medio region. “We’ve applied for some licenses, we will apply for more… roughly 20 wells that will need to be drilled, fracked, cored, lobed,
Latin America-based GeoPark Limited (stock ticker: GPRK) has been extending its reserves and announced plans to buy back shares in 2019. Last month, GeoPark increased its equity interest to 100% in its Colombian and Chilean businesses, blocks, and reserves, including the Llanos 34 block (GeoPark operated, 45% WI) in Colombia. In doing so, GeoPark acquired and closed on LG InternationaI’s
Toronto-based Frontera Energy Corporation (ticker: FECCF) announced a light oil discovery in the Llanos-25 Block in Colombia. The discovery was made on the Acorazado-1 exploration well. According to a presentation from Frontera, the Llanos-25 property is a 168,805-acre property for which the company has 100% working interest. “The Acorazado-1 exploration well is the fourth exploration discovery in Colombia so far in 2018,
Canacol Energy Ltd. (“Canacol” or the “Corporation”) (TSX:CNE) (OTCQX:CNNEF) (BVC:CNEC) is pleased to provide the following exploration, gas and oil sales, and Corporate update. Breva 1 Gas Exploration Well VIM 21 Exploration and Production Contract CNE Oil and Gas S.A.S, 100% Operated Working Interest Breva 1 was spud on April 29, 2018 using the Pioneer 302 drilling rig, and reached
