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We integrated and unified GeoPark’s Environmental Management system with Amerisur’s and renewed the ISO 14001: 2015 certification of this system through 2023 for all our operations in Colombia.
The Colombian Institute of Technical Standards and Certification (Icontec) verified our 2020 greenhouse gas inventory in Colombia in accordance with the ISO 14064 standard for organizational carbon footprints.
We were the first oil and gas company in the world certified with Bureau Veritas’ Safeguard Label for compliance with good practices, biosecurity standards and implementation of corporate protocols to prevent Covid-19.
We were certified by Equipares in Colombia for fulfilling our gender equality management system baseline, and immediately started work on the greater challenges of winning the Silver Award in 2021 and working towards the Gold Award. Equipares is an initiative of the Ministry of Labor that is supported of the Presidential Council for Equality for Women.
We won the Gold Award in the category of occupational health and safety management systems in the Inspiradores de Tranquilidad awards held by insurance company ARL Seguros Bolivar, showing our commitment to the health and safety of our workers and contractors in Colombia.
We were acknowledged by the Tauramena Mayor’s Office in Casanare, Colombia for our contributions to caring for the health of the municipality’s inhabitants during the pandemic. In 2020 we gave over 1,900 humanitarian aid parcels to neighboring communities in Casanare and 2,000 medical supplies for use in the health emergency.
US financial publication Institutional Investor awarded us prizes in its 2020 Latin American Executive Team. In the “Small-cap – Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals” category the awards were third best CEO; best CFO; third best IR Professional; second best Analyst Day and best ESG indicators. We also won the best IR Team award in the “All-cap – Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals” category.