RE: Positive Rns24 Feb 2021 12:11
Echo Energy PLC - Latin America focused upstream oil and gas company - Agrees, along with Santa Cruz Sur partners, to capital expenditure for upgrading and debottlenecking the existing liquids pipelines in the Santa Cruz Sur assets, located in onshore Argentina. This will accelerate a return to full oil production and bring remaining volumes, previously shut in the second quarter of 2020, back online. This follows an increase in demand, which resulted in improved pricing and more frequent oil sales. Pipeline upgrades will also grant additional capacity for production enhancement product in the future, which have been identified. Capital expenditure, net to Echo's 70% working interest in Santa Cruz Sur, will be around USD175,000 and will be injected by Echo to replace and upgrade parts of the infrastructure - mostly in the Chorillos, Campo Molino and Cerro Convento fields. Installation is expected to take around 45 days with 10 upgrade projects to be completed, upgrading a total of around 23 kilometres of pipeline and restoring gross daily liquids production to between 480 barrels of oil per day and 600 bopd, or 336bopd to 420 bopd net to Echo. In 2020, total cumulative production net to Echo from Santa Cruz Sur was 720,000 boe. From January