It plans to redeploy the proceeds to partly fund the $715 million acquisition of private equity-backed producer Sabalo Energy, whose adjacent acreage will give it scale in drilling.

It was a popular spot for singo, sábalo and garopa.

Sabalo, sab′a-lō, n. the tarpon.

The tract he refers to is at the entrance of the Banado La Estrella, a huge swamp in the Formosa province of Argentina where the sabalo, the fish of the Pilcomayo, feeds and fattens.

Like salmon in North America and Europe, the sabalo, on which 6,000 families in Bolivia alone depend, swims upstream to spawn.