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- Canacol Energy Ltd Canacol Energy Ltd. is Canada's leading independent onshore conventional natural gas exploration and production company focused exclusively on Colombia, where it supplies approximately 17% of the country's natural gas needs and over 50% of the Caribbean Coast's demand through its operations in the Lower and Middle Magdalena Basins across 10 exploration and production contracts spanning over 1.9 million net acres; the company offers natural gas production and sales under primarily USD-denominated, fixed-price take-or-pay contracts priced at the wellhead, with proved plus probable (2P) reserves of 599 billion cubic feet as of year-end 2024 valued at a before-tax present value of $2.0 billion discounted at 10%, and an 80% exploration success rate adding 985 billion cubic feet of 2P reserves from 2013 to 2024; founded in 1970 as BrazAlta Resources Corp. and renamed Canacol Energy Ltd. in February 2009, it is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with a subsidiary relationship to CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc. and recent expansion into Bolivia via four contracts signed with state-owned YPFB in early 2025 for sub-Andean basin assets adjacent to producing gas fields. In late 2025, Canacol entered creditor protection proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) in Canada, alongside Chapter 15 filings in the U.S. and parallel recognition in Colombia, to pursue restructuring amid a liquidity crisis driven by declining production, reduced revenues, heavy capital expenditures, substantial debt obligations, and a $22 million arbitral award against certain subsidiaries; earlier in 2025, it signed a confidentiality agreement with Ecopetrol S.A. to explore potential gas asset acquisitions or negotiations addressing Colombia's supply deficit, while maintaining 2025 gas sales guidance of 140-153 million standard cubic feet per day and reporting strong Q4 2024 EBITDAX of approximately $78 million.