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(Reuters) - Swiss prosecutors said on Wednesday they are investigating whether bribery, money laundering or other crimes linked to Ecuador oil trading were committed in Switzerland following a U.S. criminal case against an ex-Gunvor Group employee. U.S. prosecutors are investigating "the suspected bribery of Ecuadorian public officials and money laundering," the Swiss attorney general's office... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Ecuador's state oil company, Petroecuador, has declared force majeure at one of its fields in the Amazonian province of Orellana due to a prolonged protest by an indigenous community over compensation to nearby residents. In a statement published late on Thursday, Petroecuador said the force majeure declaration at the Eden Yuturi field in its... Continue Reading →
(BUSINESS WIRE)--GeoPark Limited (“GeoPark” or the “Company”) (NYSE: GPRK), a leading independent Latin American oil and gas explorer, operator and consolidator with operations and growth platforms in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil and Argentina reports its consolidated financial results for the three-month period (“First Quarter” or “1Q2021”). A conference call to discuss 1Q2021 financial results will... Continue Reading →
(BUSINESS WIRE)--GeoPark Limited (“GeoPark” or the “Company”) (NYSE: GPRK), a leading independent Latin American oil and gas explorer, operator and consolidator with operations and growth platforms in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina, today announced successful first phase of its strategic deleveraging process that is expected to result in a significant debt reduction and an... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) French bank Natixis said it plans to stop financing the trading of Ecuadorian crude oil by 2022, after pressure from campaigners over the trade's links to environmental damage in the Amazon. The role of European banks in backing the trade came under scrutiny in August, when a report by advocacy groups Stand.earth and Amazon... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) -A Canadian man once employed by the commodities trading house Gunvor Group pleaded guilty on Tuesday to involvement in what U.S. prosecutors called a scheme to bribe Ecuadorean government officials to win business from state-controlled oil company Petroecuador. Raymond Kohut, 68, entered his plea to a money laundering conspiracy charge before U.S. District Judge... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Ecuador’s state oil company Petroecuador said on Thursday that trader Unipec America Inc had won a tender to purchase some 2.16 million barrels of Oriente crude at a discount of $0.79 per barrel to front month West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude). Houston-based Unipec America is a unit of Beijing-based Unipec, the trading arm... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Ecuadorian state-run oil company Petroecuador is weighing a lawsuit against Vitol after the world’s largest oil trader admitted last week to bribing officials in the South American country, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Petroecuador is working with the nation’s attorney general to assess how much the Vitol-led graft... Continue Reading →
(BUSINESS WIRE)--GeoPark Limited (“GeoPark” or the “Company”) (NYSE: GPRK), a leading independent Latin American oil and gas explorer, operator and consolidator with operations and growth platforms in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil and Argentina today announced the successful testing of the Indico 2 appraisal well in the CPO-5 block (GeoPark non-operated, 30% WI1) in Colombia. The... Continue Reading →
(BUSINESS WIRE)--GeoPark Limited (“GeoPark” or the “Company”) (NYSE: GPRK), a leading independent Latin American oil and gas explorer, operator and consolidator with operations and growth platforms in Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Ecuador reports its consolidated financial results for the three-month period ended September 30, 2020 (“Third Quarter” or “3Q2020”). A conference call to... Continue Reading →
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