In separate press articles, the leader of the natural gas industry association (Naturgas), Eduardo Pizano and the head of the electrical generation industry association (ANDEG), Alejandro Castañeda look to reassure consumers that supply will not be affected in the coming dry season.
In the run up to the 2014 Round auctions in late July, the head of the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), Javier Betancourt, and the Vice-minister of Mines and Energy, Orlando Cabrales, have been talking to the press.
The General Manager of Llanopetrol, Ricardo Rodríguez Henao, sees a rapid timetable for the Meta micro-refinery project.
Despite a self-imposed truce by the Farc in the run-up to the second round of the Colombian presidential elections, security incidents near oil and gas infrastructure went up to 34 this week, at recent but just above long-term averages.
The Colombian climate institute predicts 8 months of drought and NIMBY affects Pore, Casanare in our roundup of stories related to the environment and the hydrocarbons industry.
True, he is not going to give any more money to producing regions but they will be able to spend direct royalty money as they please, without having to go through the OCAD approval process.
After a brutal campaign that left many Colombians thinking about voting for ‘none-of-the-above’, President Juan Manuel Santos was reelected meaning we expect continuity in the current government’s policies.
The ICP (Colombian Petroleum Institute) has been around for 29 years and now is looking at both expanding its capabilities and decentralizing its operations.
The USO charges that the community’s rejection of a renewal of the association contract for the Rubiales field has prompted the arrival of some 700 paramilitary soldiers to intimidate local residents and the union ahead of a pending decision on the future of the field’s production.
Using Occidental (NYSE:OXY) as an example, an outspoken critic of the oil industry argues in a column that the government and controller must review association contracts renewed during President Uribe’s term because the formula to figure the state’s share is outdated, and apply the lessons to contracts up for renewal, such as Rubiales.
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