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| Item 7.01. | Regulation FD Disclosure. |
On August 1, 2023, Gran Tierra Energy Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release providing a mid-year 2023 update on the Company’s reserves, which were evaluated by the Company’s independent qualified reserves evaluator McDaniel & Associates Consultants Ltd. and calculated in compliance with Canadian National Instrument 51-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Oil and Gas Activities (“NI 51-101”) and the Canadian Oil and Gas Evaluation Handbook. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. Estimates of reserves made in accordance with NI 51-101 will differ from corresponding estimates prepared in accordance with applicable U.S. securities laws. The Company has not provided disclosure of oil and gas reserves in accordance with SEC requirements as of June 30, 2023, and U.S. investors are referred to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 for oil and gas reserves prepared in accordance with SEC requirements as of December 31, 2022.
The information in this Item 7.01 and in Exhibit 99.1 attached to this report is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing by Gran Tierra Energy Inc. under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, regardless of any general incorporation language contained in such filing.
| Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
| (d) | Exhibits |
| Exhibit No. | Description | |
| 99.1 | Press Release issued on August 1, 2023. | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document. |
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Dated: August 1, 2023 | GRAN TIERRA ENERGY INC. | |
| /s/ Ryan Ellson | ||
| By: Ryan Ellson | ||
| Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||