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GasColombia experienced a “boom” of cars conversions to natural gas some years ago, but this has gradually diminished. Some industry representatives talked about this market.

Meta’s Secretary of Environment, Oswaldo Avellaneda, called for the industry and the Government to provide resources and help the department face its environmental and social issues. These and other Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) stories in our periodic summary.

Semana hosted a debate on the convenience and viability of developing fracking in the country. There were, as expected, opposing opinions.

Geopark (NYSE: GPRK) and Cepsa Colombia announced an agreement to work in a new high-potential exploration acreage in the country. This is the first alliance between the two companies.

Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) enabled the connection of the Bicentenario, Araguaney and Central pipelines as a new route to extract oil from the Coveñas Caño Limon field (CCL) to Coveñas port.

ProductionOrlando Velandia Sepúlveda, President of the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), spoke about offshore, self-sufficiency and other relevant issues for the industry.

During the Colombian Association of Petroleum Engineers’ (Acipet) 17th Oil and Gas Congress, four of the presidential candidates for next year’s elections spoke about their proposals for the development of the industry, parallel to the implementation of the peace accords.

Think tank Crudo Transparente presented its ‘Regional Oil Pulse’ report for September 2017, where it highlighted fuel smuggling as the industry’s biggest problem.The development of these and other stories in our periodic Security summary.

The director of the National Environmental Licensing Agency (ANLA), Claudia Victoria González Hernández, participated in an event with communities in Meta and talked about certain oil projects.

The Ministry of Finance (MinHacienda) informed the mayor of Granada (Meta) that there are not enough resources to finance the voting session that was planned in the municipality for October 22^nd.