Ecopetrol and Nippon to explore Brazilian Amazon

Ecopetrol, Colombia’s state-run oil company, has agreed to a partnership with Japan’s Nippon Oil to explore Brazil’s Amazon basin for possible oil reserves.

The contract, signed by Ecopetrol and Nippon Oil’s Brazilian subsidiary, permits the Colombian company to explore a block of land in the Foz basin of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.





Source: Colombia Reports