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The boom in anti-oil and mining referendums keeps increasing and communities intend to expand this popular mechanism. Meta and Tolima are the next targets.

Colombia needs to guarantee its self-sufficiency for the long term, and the country is analyzing different alternatives to achieve it. Fracking is one of the options, but the most controversial. The government might have made a decision on this issue.

One of the main concerns in relation to the industry is the fact that according to the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), the country’s reserves will only be enough for five or six years.

GasThe Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinMinas) published a statement about the Special Fund for Natural Gas Development (FECFGN) and deadlines for requesting infrastructure funds.

The theme of last week’s ACP conference was “Working together for the future” and social issues dominated the agenda. No company leader took the microphone without talking about it. We were there and collected their comments.

Representatives of oil companies and industry associations among others expressed concerns about the requirements to take part in the next auction organized by the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH).

During the closing ceremony of the Colombian Petroleum Association’s (ACP) third annual congress, its president Francisco Lloreda, spoke about the situation of the industry.

The union spoke of its achievements after it was able to get MASSER S.A.S (Terpel’s fuel distribution subsidiary) to convert 158 workers to permanent employment contracts.

The Colombian-Canadian Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) hosted the third “Entrepreneurial Challenges for Peacebuilding in Colombia” forum, where industry representatives and state officials gave their opinion on how the industry can contribute to the post-conflict process taking place in Colombia.

The sun had set and maybe a third of the room had already either gone home or was hanging around outside waiting for the bar to open when Mauricio Cárdenas took the stage at the ACP’s annual conference to talk about a key industry issue: the incentive known as CERT.