The sale includes Repsol’s 45% stake in onshore Block CPO-9 (Akacias) in the Llanos Norte play, which is operated by Colombia’s state-run Ecopetrol (55%), and Repsol’s nonoperated interest in the promising Cosecha Block

ExxonMobil Corp has submitted a proposal to carry out a pilot project for hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – in Colombia, the oil company and the Andean country’s national hydrocarbons agency (ANH) said