The propane sector has been through a process of formalization that started in 2010, and a new regulatory framework underway could enhance this transition and bring more growth for the fuel, says Nicolás Botero-Páramo Gaviria president of the propane association Gasnova.
The Farc and government have agreed to the criteria and process that will be used to select the magistrates that will form the Special Peace Tribunal, the legal entity with jurisdiction over the process of demobilizing guerrilla members and matters of the post-conflict transition.
A wave of blockades in Putumayo, Caquetá and Huila add to the 45 registered this year in a growing trend which have some speculating in the national press that companies could start suspending or canceling projects.
After successive production growth, Geopark´s (NYSE:GPRK) oil and gas production dropped for the first time, but the firm was able to shrink its loss compared to the first quarter and last year.
As Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) closed an intense six months which included the operational launch of the Cartagena Refinery (Reficar), the handover of Cusiana and Rubiales and a management restructuring. The firm reported that during the second quarter its production has faltered but its financial results improve on the first quarter of the year.
The constant decline of existing gas fields like those in La Guajira, and a lack of new sources has spelled the end to an expansion of thermal generation plants designed to back up the general electrical grid.
The General Controller (CGR) Edgardo Maya Villazón has issued yet another report which found multiple ‘white elephant’ projects in 16 departments. Exactly the problems the General Royalty System and the overall of the royalty scheme were supposed to prevent.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) has started the process of naming a new president for the Cartagena Refinery, with an international headhunt expected to bring an executive with precise knowledge of the petrochemical market and refining operations.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) has announced that the Gunflint field has started producing 20,000bd, of which its US subsidiary has a 31.5% share, and the NOC highlighted the strategic nature of this sort of asset.
The director of the Energy and Gas Regulation Commission (CREG) Jorge Pinto Nolla said the entity’s main strategy to supply the market with natural gas is based on regasification plants, and clarified that natural gas appears, it does not just result from a plan.
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