GeoPark Reports on its January-April 2025 Socio-Environmental Management in Colombia

GeoPark continues its commitment to sustainable territorial development, through permanent dialogue with its neighboring communities, fulfilling commitments, and developing socio-environmental investment projects in the territories it operates in. The latest edition of the ‘Good News, Good Neighbors’ newsletter provides a summary of GeoPark’s management and contracting, building on the Company’s transparent relations and engagement with communities, authorities and strategic partners.

In January-April 2025, GeoPark held over 160 dialogue opportunities with communities and local authorities in Casanare, Meta and Putumayo, and received more than 800 visits to its Cuéntame offices in Casanare and Putumayo to actively listen to its stakeholders’ concerns, developing both dialogue and closer relations.

More than 80% of the more than 1,600 workers who were hired to support GeoPark operations in the three departments are local. GeoPark also signed goods and services procurement agreements with over 100 local companies, strengthening its value chain and promoting business development in the regions.

SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Providing almost 7,000 study kits to children from areas neighboring operations in the three departments
• 95% progress in building the Puerto Bello School (Puerto Asis, Putumayo), and completing improvements to six rural schools in Puerto Asis
• Supporting the education of over 520 students in seven rural locations in Casanare, in partnership with the Escuela Nueva Foundation
• 42% progress in building the Orinoquia Regional Monitoring Center in Villavicencio, Meta, in partnership with IDEAM
• Contributing over 59,200 biodiversity records to SiB Colombia after monitoring flora and fauna in Casanare, Meta, and Putumayo
• 97% progress in the construction of a Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Caribayona, repairs to 17.5 km of the La Vara-Soceagro road in Villanueva, and strengthening road bridges in Casanare, in coordination with the regional government and Parex
• Progress of more than 60% in installing solar PV systems in rural areas of Monterrey and Paz de Ariporo, and 70% in providing furniture and cultural elements to 39 schools in Hato Corozal and La Salina. Both projects are part of the Works for Taxes mechanism
• Implementation of three educational energy communities in Putumayo, benefitting over 130 people
• Launch of the Environmental Transparency Portal, a website that facilitates access to environmental information on the Company’s oil and gas exploration and production projects in Colombia

GeoPark underscores its commitment to continue working closely with authorities and communities to consolidate partnerships that help build a legacy of shared prosperity and well-being in the territories it works in.

For further details of developments in the departments of  Meta, Casanare, Putumayo, click the respective links

ABOUT GEOPARK

GeoPark is a leading independent energy company with over 20 years of successful operations across Latin America and which has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2014. In Colombia, it is one of the main companies in the sector. Since being founded, GeoPark’s SPEED Integrated Value System (Safety, Prosperity, Employees, Environment and Community Development) has embodied its commitment to sustainability in every territory that the Company operates in.

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