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ECOPETROL: Eyes 3% Production Increase by 2011
Colombian state-run oil firm Ecopetrol's head Javier Gutierrez said at an energy conference in Medellin, Colombia, that the company expects its output to increase 3% to 550,000 barrels per day by 2011, Business News Americas reports.
BNamericas relates that Ecopetrol's 2007 output would total 402,000 barrels per day.
About 50% of the growth would come from within Colombia. The remaining 50% would be from Ecopetrol's expanding operations abroad, BNamericas notes.
Ecopetrol would invest about US$3.7 billion next year and US$12.5 billion through 2012, BNamericas states, citing Mr. Gutierrez.
Ecopetrol is an integrated-oil company that is wholly owned by the Colombian government. The company's activities include exploration for and production of crude oil and natural gas, as well as refining, transportation, and marketing of crude oil, natural gas and refined products. Ecopetrol is Latin America's fourth-largest integrated-oil concern. Operations are organized into Exploration & Production, Refining & Marketing, Transportation, and International Commerce & Gas. Ecopetrol produced 385,000 barrels a day of oil and gas in 2006 and has 330,000 barrels a day of refining capacity, according to the company's Web site. In 2005 it produced about 60 percent of Colombia's daily output.
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As reported in the Troubled Company Reporter-Latin America on Nov. 6, 2007, Fitch Ratings affirmed Ecopetrol S.A.'s foreign and local currency issuer default ratings at 'BB+' and 'BBB-', respectively. Fitch said the outlook for all ratings is stable.
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