QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador and a subsidiary of Chile’s state-owned oil firm ENAP renegotiated an existing arrangement for the exploitation of an oil block in the Ecuadorian Amazon, with an extra financial investment of $90 million up until 2035, the Ministry of Power in Quito stated on Saturday.
The brand-new arrangement, joined July 15 in between the ministry and the firm ENAP SIPEC, which currently runs the block, will certainly enable a rise aside by 5.6 million barrels of petroleum, Power and Mine priest Antonio Goncalves stated in a declaration.
” Ninety-eight percent of the brand-new financial investments dedicated by the driver will certainly be executed throughout the very first 5 years complying with the finalizing of the record,” the priest stated.
ENAP authorized a solution agreement in 2010 with the Andean nation for the procedure of 3 blocks. The procedure of block 46, situated in the district of Orellana in the northeast with a manufacturing of 16,700 barrels daily (bpd), had actually currently been renegotiated in very early 2021.
ENAP’s manufacturing in Ecuador was 28,443 bpd since July 18, 2024, according to main information.
( Coverage by Alexandra Valencia; Modified by Natalia Ramos; Creating by Sarah Kinosian; Editing And Enhancing by Sandra Maler)