A recent study from the Neiva Chamber of Commerce in Huila found that the fall in oil prices and the shock waves it has sent through the services industry has touched on almost every part of the local economy.
The Huila department royalty budget suffers from peso devaluation and low oil prices, meanwhile a royalty funded project in Casanare includes five new gasification networks. These and other stories in our periodic roundup.
Combine insufficient infrastructure, blockades, attacks and high tax rates with a crude sales price of US$30, which some speculate could be a reality in the near future, and Colombia’s oil business loses all of its shine.
As Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) slashes its costs in strategy which means new importance for secondary recovery and an efficient costs structure, the NOC could confront a drop in production of 10-15% in the first quarter of 2016.
In the international news section, the current Colombian story is its border dispute with Venezuela. Colombia’s neighbor has ejected several thousand Colombians living near the border and then closed the section in the northeast near Cúcuta to all traffic in either direction.
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The USO push for a collective bargaining agreement at Mansarovar Energy has heated up, and its affiliates with the firm have voted to strike.
Non-Armed Forces-reported incidents went up by one this week and that brought the total incident count up by one. However that did not stop the 52-week average from falling to an historic low of 30 incidents per week. This is the safest 52-week period we have seen since starting tracking in 2012.
Eduardo Pizano, the president of Colombia’s Natural Gas Association, Naturgas, urged the government to speed up the process to issue environmental licenses for the production of Coal Bed Methane (CBM), which he said could provide an alternative source to increase the country’s gas reserves.
A national paper highlighted three examples in Colombia’s Caribbean coast of how hydrocarbons firms are both complying with environmental standards and engaging the community to create successful and positive social and ecological impacts.
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