Investments on the block will be a gross $1.5 billion taking into account the other block consortium members.

Having concluded long-running talks over commercial terms with Bolivia’s state-run hydro­carbons company YPFB, Repsol outlined plans to achieve a sevenfold increase in output on the ­Caipipendi block to 14 million ­cubic metres per day.

Caipipendi harbours the ­Margarita field, where Repsol ­expects to achieve output of more than 8 MMcmd, and the more ­recent Huacaya discovery.