Canacol Energy Ltd. Announces Commencement of Gas Transportation Along its Sabanas Gas Flowline

CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 04, 2017 -- Canacol Energy Ltd. ("Canacol" or the "Corporation") (TSX:CNE) (OTCQX:CNNEF) (BVC:CNEC) is pleased to announce that it’s 82 kilometer long Sabanas gas flowline is connected and buried, and is currently in the final stage of pressure testing.  The flowline is anticipated to commence transportation of gas on Tuesday December 5, 2017, on which date the flowline will transport approximately 20 million standard cubic feet (“MMscfpd”) of gas from the Corporation’s Jobo gas processing facility to the Promigas S.A. export line at Bremen.  The gas will be sold to consumers in the city of Cartagena.  Gas sales for the months of October and November 2017, were 84.1 MMscfpd, with oil sales for the same period of 3,025 barrels of oil per day.  Upon completion of the second gas compression station scheduled for mid-January 2018, the Sabanas flowline will reach its full transportation capacity of 40 MMscfpd. 

Charle Gamba, President and CEO of Canacol, commented, “We are pleased to have reached this important milestone, and we remain focused on completing the second compression station and lifting transport capacity along the Sabanas to 40 MMscfpd in January of 2018.  Looking forward to 2018 the focus will shift to building our gas production capacity to allow us to achieve our next milestone of 230 MMscfpd of gas sales in December 2018 via the second expansion of the Promigas pipeline from Jobo to Cartagena and Baranquilla.  We shall be releasing our 2018 guidance in a couple weeks which will outline the details associated with this objective.”

Canacol is an exploration and production company with operations focused in Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico.  The Corporation's common stock trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the OTCQX in the United States of America, and the Colombia Stock Exchange under ticker symbol CNE, CNNEF, and CNE.C, respectively.

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