Echo Energy plc Appoints Geoff Probert as Chief Operating Officer

Echo Energy plc is a United Kingdom-based full cycle, exploration led, gas focused company with an asset base in Latin America. Its portfolio of operations is located in Argentina and Bolivia. It holds a 5% minority stake in the joint venture in Argentina, which holds Santa Cruz Sur, a collection of five production concessions located in the onshore Austral Basin, southern Argentina. The assets sit to the northeast and southeast of its Tapi Aike exploration block. The license portfolio consists of over 12 producing oil and gas fields with existing infrastructure allowing the delivery of oil and gas to local, domestic and international export markets. Its Huayco and Rio Salado blocks lie in the south of Bolivia within the sub-Andean foothills of the Tarija Basin. The Rio Salado license surrounds the Huayco block and lies in southern Bolivia, over 290 km south of the city of Sucre and 60 km east of Tarija. It is also focused on exploring potential opportunities to secure new assets.