Oil companies are currently exploiting some parts of the reserve, including a block bordering the Yasuni Ishpingo Tambococha Tiputini area, licensed to the Brazilian company Petrobras.
As part of its proven crude reserves, Ecuador has an estimated 900 million barrels (and 1.3 billion barrels of potential recoverable reserves) in the Ishpingo-Tapococha-Tiputini (ITT) block in the Amazon rainforest.