Casanare has become the eighth department to receive a special investigative unit, called the Structure of Support (EDA), which will focus on criminal cases involving the oil industry and its infrastructure.
Javier Gutiérrez, president of Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) made a visit to the municipality in San Antero and told local press that the Bicentennial Pipeline (OBC) will be online in December, the latest change in the start of its operations, mainly due to security threats.
The commander of a local military unit, Cornol Juvenal Díaz says the 48th Front of the Farc is responsible for repeated attacks that have caused a significant amount of oil to be spilled into the ecosystem.
Hydrocarbons Colombia organized a debate on environmental management in the hydrocarbons industry between two Colombian heavyweights: environmentalist Juan Pablo Ruiz Soto (the only Colombian to have climbed Mount Everest) and Jose Francisco Arata, president of Colombia’s largest entirely shareholder-owned oil company, Pacific Rubiales.
The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinMinas) has presented its formula to lower fuel costs at the pump and also believes that the modernization of national refineries could also contribute to a lower price in the midterm.
The municipality of Monterrey has presented a socialization of the Odisea 3D seismic exploration project and its environmental impact to the municipal council so that council members can issue a statement regarding the project and possible bring it to a public referendum.
A chain of events set off by a truck loaded with 230 barrels of crude crashing on a Putumayo highway which led then to a spill which reached the Magdalena river, has moved local authorities to ban a number of transport companies from operating and heavy trucks from using their normal routes in Huila.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) is launching a pilot plant that will implement a chemical recovery technology in its 28-year-old San Francisco field as part of a larger strategy to increase production in mature fields.
The USO republished a press release from the office of Colombian Senator Alexander Lopez, in which he highlights a report issued by US congressional members that decry labor conditions in Colombia.
A break in UK oil producer Perenco’s pipeline caused 15 barrels of oil to leak into a nearby stream in Casanare, affecting the water supply of the Aguazul and Maní municipalities, and the local environmental management agency has called for the National Environmental Licensing Agency (ANLA) to intervene.
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