Company Snapshot:
Perenco (annual revenues about $3 billion) is a privately held independent oil & gas exploration and production company with its main offices in Paris and London. It has activities in Africa, Central and South America, Turkey and the North Sea. In 2007 it signed an exploration deal with the regional government of Kurdistan in Iraq.
Perenco has faced opposition to its activities in Ecuador, and in early 2008 the company purchased a small U.S.
