Recently the press picked up a statistic that none of the exploratory wells drilled in 2012 had entered into production. We did not publish the story because we knew there had been announcements of wells entering production or at least getting to the stage of production. Now National Hydrocarbons Agency head Orlando Cabrales has given the statistics seen in the above chart. This was part of an excellent presentation he made to the International Forum on Hydrocarbons 2103 jointly organized by Colombia’s best business school CESA and the Alberta School of Business.