据委内瑞拉Petroleumworld网站8月27日波哥大报道，哥伦比亚国家石油公司（哥国油/Ecopetrol）计划通过海外资产收购来扩大和增加其石油和天然气储量，同时增加其在美国的业务。
哥伦比亚这家国有石油公司的首席执行官费利佩·巴永上周五在纽约证券交易所接受媒体记者采访时说：“哥国油已经确定了其可能考虑收购的资产。我们正在努力在今年实现这一目标。”
巴永说：““它需要与战略和正确估价相匹配，通过勘探或收购，墨西哥和巴西肯定是我们希望进入的两个关键地区。他说，哥国油可能通过与一个合作伙伴联手来专注于扩大在美国的业务。
分析人士认为石油储量水平对哥伦比亚的钻井商来说是一个挑战。原油是哥伦比亚最大的出口商品，但截至去年年底，哥伦比亚的石油储量仅相当于5年多时间的产量。相比之下，根据英国石油公司《统计评论》的数据，厄瓜多尔的石油储量相当于40多年的产量，而委内瑞拉相当于近400年的产量。
李峻 编译自 石油世界
原文如下：
Ecopetrol shopping abroad to expand and boost reservesBOGOTA
Colombia's Ecopetrol SA plans to expand its oil and gas reserves through acquisitions, while also increasing its presence in the U.S.
The state-owned oil company has identified assets that it may consider buying, Chief Executive Officer Felipe Bayon said Friday in an interview at the New York Stock Exchange. "We're trying to make it happen this year."
“It needs to be the right fit with the strategy and the right valuation,” Bayon said. “Mexico and Brazil are definitely two of the key places where we want to be, through exploration or through acquisitions.” The company is focused Analysts consider the level of oil reserves as a challenge for the Colombian driller. Crude is Colombia's biggest export, yet the nation had reserves equivalent to just over five years of output at the end of last year. That compares to more than forty years for Ecuador and nearly four centuries for Venezuela, according to the BP statistical review.
