A recent roundtable of the Oil & Gas Cluster that the Casanare Chamber of Commerce ended with the president of the Colombian Chamber of Oil Goods & Services (Campetrol) Rubén Darío Lizarralde concluding it is time to stop the ‘mafias’ that have taken hold of oil company and community relations.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) says that it has started testing the first units of the Cartegena Refinery (Reficar), and that full operations will start in March 2016.
President Santos has launched a publicity campaign to promote the importance of the peace process and that the end of war brings benefits to the entire country, not just the war-zones as more details emerge on how the transition process would work.
Geopark (NYSE:GPRK) saw a small drop in its consolidated production (including operations in Chile and Brazil) and financial results dragged down by the fall in oil prices, yielding a loss. But the firm has reopened suspended operations in Colombia after a cost restructuring, and added new production for a 22% increase.
Colombian authorities should be paying close attention to not just the results of the first Mexico Round, but how the rest of the process plays out. It clearly demonstrates that contract conditions and geology weigh just as heavily as state take when deciding whether to bid or not, says a business publication.
After a considerable amount of debate on how to set natural prices and allow the different parts of the supply chain to agree to rates, the Energy and Gas Regulation Commission (CREG) has opted for direct negotiation.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) exploration activities near Paz de Ariporo, Casanare have sparked protests over its supposed impact on the local water supply. This and other environmental stories in our periodic summary.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) hosted a workshop on journalistic ethics, will support a major vehicular bridge in Meta and lent a hand in a spill cleanup. These and other stories on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in our periodic summary.
Little or no information on biodiversity in Colombia’s offshore blocks and lack of a clear regulatory framework for offshore are two of the issues that are getting more attention following two offshore discoveries made by Ecopetrol over the last year.
An ambitious project underway to make the Magdalena River navigable for large cargo convoys has the government promoting it for its general economic benefit. But the project does have its naysayers, who point to the long term environmental impact and question how much it will improve life in villages along Colombia’s longest river.
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