Maple Energy

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Maple Energy plc (“Maple” or the “Company) is an independent, privately-held, Ireland-registered integrated energy company with assets and operations focused in Peru. Maple engages in numerous aspects of the energy business, including exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas; refining and marketing of hydrocarbon products; gas-fired power generation and transmission and the development of an ethanol project. IFC’s proposed investments will finance Maple’s capital expenditure program in the short-to-medium term (the “Project”) which will include: (i) the drilling and well work-over programs aimed to extend production of its existing hydrocarbon fields; (ii) exploration activities in Maple’s hydrocarbon concessions; and (iii) the development of a greenfield ethanol project.