Archive for the ‘Ecopetrol’ Category

Ecopetrol’s Growth Strategy
August 5th, 2010

Via The Financial Times, an interesting article on a recent purchase by Colombia’s Ecopetrol.  As the reports notes: “…Ecopetrol has been rummaging around the sale bins for a few years now as part of an aggressive growth strategy aimed at ramping up oil production to 1m bpd by 2015. In 2009, Colombia’s majority state-owned oil […]

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Ecopetrol: Out of the Chavez “Shadow”
August 29th, 2007

The WSJ’s Annelena Lobb took an interesting look at the public market debut of Colombian state-run energy giant Ecopetrol earlier this week. According to the article, “….Ecopetrol is selling just over a 10% stake in itself over the course of the offering. The initial round is for certain local investors, and lasts until Sept. 25. […]

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Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.

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