The USO urged workers to not be tempted into the feeling of comfort and bliss following Colombia’s historical advance in the FIFA World Cup, reminding affiliates that Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) has yet to withdraw its list of demands.
Led by the Governor of Casanare Marco Tulio Ruiz and the director of social responsibility for the Colombian Petroleum Association, Miguel Angel Santiago, members of the Casanare Oil Industry Committee (CINPAC) met to evaluate the advances of a social investment agreement for 2013-2014.
The National Authority of Environmental Licenses (ANLA) is developing a new tool that is says will be able to rate municipalities on the impact of positive and negative changes using different socioeconomic factors.
The USO was rather quiet this week, focusing instead on a member assembly on Friday, June 20th to socialize, discuss and approve the demands it will take to the negotiation table with Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC).
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.
Colombia’s state training agency Sena has unveiled the installation of a specialized “industrial instrumentation room” in Huila, the fifth such facility in the country and part of a strategy to improve local talent in hydrocarbon matters.
On May 17th the General Royalty System (SGR) officially marked its second anniversary, and a look at the results over the last two years shows highway projects have received the most funding, while regionally the Caribbean coast has benefited the most.
Following through on promises to limit the number of tanker trucks heading from fields in Putumayo through Huila, national government officials have announced that crude will start heading to Ecuador via pipeline starting on July 15th. Truckers that currently move the crude through Huila in tankers have rejected the measure.
An oil engineer, Oscar Vanegas, and repeated critic of the oil industry in Casanare has received his own share of criticism after the Industrial University of Santander (UIS), where Vanegas is a staff member, said he does not speak for the institution and presents ideas without proper scientific field testing to back them up.
The Llanos Orientales (ODL) pipeline has been working for the last two years to reach an agreement with local communities for an 86km Carmentea-Araguaney section, but for every socialization and advance, another snag appears with local leaders.
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