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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.

When we were first starting out in HCC, I was fascinated by the paradox of successful ‘small’ companies in the Colombian industry and yet the government’s apparent desire to limit their scope in favor of ‘large’ companies who, frankly, seemed largely uninterested.

The union said that it will be a mediator between communities in San Luis de Palenque (Casanare) and Frontera Energy (TSE: FEC).

The Colombian-Canadian Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) hosted the “New Environmental Challenges in Colombia” panel, where Minister of Environment (MinAmbiente) Luis Gilberto Murillo spoke about the main environmental challenges that the post conflict process will bring. HCC attended the event.

A group of journalists from Yopal (Casanare) promoted a campaign via twitter to protect the resources from the General System of Royalties (SGR), arguing that they could be vulnerable to fall into corruption. These and other stories in our periodic Royalties summary.

ACIPET congress organized an interesting debate on the post-conflict process and the role of the sector at this stage. Important public figures participated to talk about this subject.

The Colombian Association of Petroleum Engineers (ACIPET) organized its XVII oil and gas Colombian congress in Bogota. Representatives of the sector and the government inaugurated this event and HCC bring a brief summary of what they said.