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According to a report from the Northeastern Regional Border Autonomous Corporation (Corponor), environmental emergencies tend to increase during December and January.The development of these and more stories in our periodic Eco summary.

La Cira Infantas is the oldest oil field in the country and is located in the department of Santander. This important facility reported a new production record recently.

NOC representatives spoke about the firm’s plans for this year regarding E&P.

Overall, the union gave a positive reporton the bilateral ceasefire between the government and the ELN, but said that the government allegedly breached agreements in regards to humanitarian relief.

Colombia is not an oil country, but its finances depend largely on this industry. The sector crisis affected government finances, but the recovery of crude prices is generating great expectations.

The Colombian Petroleum Association (ACP), the Colombian Chamber of Petroleum Goods and Services (Campetrol) and the Colombian Association of Petroleum Engineers (Acipet), spoke about the attacks perpetrated by the ELN, only hours after the bilateral ceasefire ended.

Last month, we introduced our revision of our methodology for studying security-related incidents near pipelines. This time, we look deeper into the trends in attacks, the impact of security incidents on operations and at statistics by pipeline.

Marianna Boza leads the extractive sector practice for Brigard Urrutia, one of Colombia’s leading local law firms. She has an extensive experience in the sector, having spent much of her career with international law firms acting as external counsel to PDVSA before coming to Colombia in 2014.

Experts said that the fiscal gap could reach CoP$1.2Tin the next five years, but the government said that they were able to conciliate with 146 municipalities.

Electrical engineer Ricardo Humberto Ramírez was chosen by the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinMinas) as the Mining and Energy Planning Unit’s (UPME) new director.