Local hiring and the ongoing debate between the economic benefits to the local economy achieved through using tankers to transport crude stood out as the top items in this week’s road review.
Huila governor Carlos Mauricio Iriarte Barrios said that there is an opportunity for departments in Colombia’s south to join forces to become more competitive to win royalty projects that meet the needs of this region.
Citing shifting, exaggerated demands and requirements from the local community near its Llanos 30 block E&P operations, Parex has decided to close the operation and cancel contracts with local suppliers.
The USO has said that it has presented a new list of terms to Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) which surround a number of policy changes and increased benefits, stances on several environmental issues, and will hold a vote among USO affiliated workers with the NOC on April 25, 2014, in order to demand a new collective bargaining agreement.
Editor’s note: This version of the story clarifies that Gran Tierra Energy had indeed issued a press release to certain local media outlets informing that the suspension of trucks would be a temporary arrangement after HCC received the full release from the company.
The public hearing to grant the environmental license for the Llanos 10 exploratory drilling project came to a close, and with no fanfare, or public condemnation of the project, authorities or grandiose accusations.
The General Royalty System (SGR) has been in place for a little more than a year and already there is a brewing discussion as to the effectiveness in the new program, which has oil producing regions up in arms and calling for change.
The USO has a new conspiracy theory and so a new line of accusations against Pacific Rubiales Energy (TSX:PRE). The union is now saying that the firm is looking to take over the Cartagena Refinery (Reficar) project and staff it with Venezuelans.
Colombia’s Inspector General (IG) weighed in on the growing list of municipalities that are planning public referendums to approve or reject the extraction of hydrocarbons or minerals in surrounding areas, saying that the use of these resources does not pertain to them.
Colombian senator Jaíme Durán of the Liberal party has called on the leadership of Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) to explain to the country in detail why the Barrancabermeja project continues to suffer delays.
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