Geopark (NYSE:GPRK) said that its production grew 15% in the first quarter of 2016 to reach 22,518boed compared to the previous year, but its revenues suffered from discounts to global prices in Colombia.
The back and forth accusations continue between Pacific E&P management and a group of minority shareholders after the company accepted a restructuring offer from Catalyst Capital, but a new offer from EIG Global Energy Partners has emerged at the last minute.
In Orito, Cartagena, Yopal and Puerto Gaitán protests and conflicts over local hiring have escalated as jobs with the oil industry shrink.
We picked up a rare article which sounded alarms on the oil industry in a magazine read by Colombia’s elite, which brought up the legal instability, polarization and environmental resistance that is crushing the national budget.
USO president Cesar Loza participated in the recent debate in Colombia’s senate on the overruns suffered in the Cartagena Refinery (Reficar), and warned again that there is an alleged plot to privatize Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC).
Authorities and oil industry associations have been driving home the importance of diversifying the national economy, with many operators taking on strategic projects in influence areas that stress other industries like agriculture or tourism.
Higher oil prices definitely lifted the spirits of Colombia-committed E&P companies and their shareholders felt the same euphoria.
In his last interview before resigning as the director of the National Agency of Environmental Licenses (ANLA), Fernando Irequi argued that the controversy around the Caño Cristales River and the revoked license for Hupecol was an isolated case, and also defended agency’s process to approve it.
A municipal ordinance plan (POT) looks to restrict oil activities in order to protect local water sources, and this has led to a series of court actions and accusations. The decision could end up affecting production at Ecopetrol’s CPO-9 block.
The National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) says that it has detected a significant increase in the buying and selling of E&P blocks, provoked by the fall in oil prices.
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