Oxy will accelerate oil exploration in Ecuador.
The Los Angeles-based oil company cited a “promising discovery” in the jungles of Ecuador for the speedup. As reported last January, Occidental Petroleum and CEPE, Ecuador’s state oil company, executed an exploration and oil services contract under which Occidental operates a 494,000-acre block in Ecuador’s eastern jungle for CEPE.
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