Gran Tierra's Grand Tour (into Ecuador)

Gran Tierra has won three blocks in Ecuador covering c.140,000 acres in the highly prospective Oriente-Putumayo Basin: Charapa, Chanangue and Iguana. The blocks are contiguous with Gran Tierra’s Putumayo position in Colombia and allows the company to extend its Colombian success on the trend across the border. Gran Tierra will have 100% interest and operatorship on each block in exchange for a 14 well, four year work programme – management...

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Putumayo smart crude marketing

Putumayo producers are blessed with having multiple export routes and the flexibility that affords in maximising sales netbacks. The most direct route is the OTA pipeline to Tumaco. However this route has historically been plagued by attacks leading to downtime and the South Blend crude at Tumaco also fetches one of the biggest discounts to benchmarks vs. other region blends. This has led to producers accessing Ecuadorian export routes...

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