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Ecopetrol said members of the Alto Unuma indigenous community have “taken by force” an onsite water disposal plant at Rubiales oilfield.

Pacific Exploration is showing signs of recovery, but it still has a long way to go to get back to its performance levels in earlier years.

CEO Juan Carlos Echeverry says "2016 was a year of enormous challenges for Ecopetrol," but he believes increased investment in 2017 will improve results in the coming years.

"The group has overcome the period of low oil prices and has returned to the path of growth in production," said CEO Juan Carlos Echeverry.

Pacific Exploration said its arrangement with Catalyst will close on October 12, "assuming satisfaction or waiver of the remaining conditions."

Pacific Exploration is selling its 35% stake in the Karoon Blocks in Brazil to Karoon Gas Australia Ltd. for at least $15.5 million.

Pacific Exploration expects to implement its restructuring plan, allowing it to come out of creditor protection, during the week of October 3.

The drilling push is expected to bring Ecopetrol's new well count to 105 in 2016, with 35 additional wells coming to the lucrative Rubiales oilfield.

More than 98% of affected creditors approved the plan, and Pacific Exploration expects to get official sign off from a Canadian court on August 23.

The expiration of a contract between Pacific Exploration and Ecopetrol cedes the Canadian firm's 43% stake in the vast Campo Rubiales field to the state-run oil company.