(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 20.Jun.2018) – Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol S.A. announced it will prepay all loans entered into in 2013 with international banks and guaranteed by the US Export-Import Bank, which had been subject to a payment schedule to 2023.
The loan agreements allow Ecopetrol to prepay without penalty all principal on the interest payment dates, which are scheduled for July 6 and 25, 2018. Total principal plus accrued interest owed is $155,979,564, the company announced in an official statement.
Ecopetrol said it is able to make this prepayment due to its cash position of COP 16.6 billion as of the first quarter of 2018. The Colombian company expects this cash position will remain strong and thus allow it to better confront crude price volatility scenarios and be prepared to seize opportunities that might arise for inorganic growth.
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