After a number of families raised protests against oil producer Cepcolsa and set up a blockade in the access to a local well, company and community officials met to discuss labor and social guarantees in the Sevilla village.
A number of corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects have been completed or announced over the last few weeks which show a more positive side of community and industry relations. Many are too small to warrant a full story, but together paint a picture of how the oil sector’s resources can benefit local communities.
Five Casanare mayors spoke out against seismic testing Ecopetrol has planned for its Odisea 3D project in Casanare, alleging the testing is performed without adequate control and affects water sources and the environment in general.
After coming out of a strike early this month union workers with the USO continued talks involving the labor conditions at the Cartagena Refinery (Reficar) as the union claims the company is forcing workers to work extra hours through intimidation.
Representatives from multiple oil operators, the Interior Ministry and the National Hydrocarbons Agency met with the mayor of San Luís Palenque and local village spokespeople to sign an agreement related to local hiring and road maintenance.
The Secretary of Transit and Transport of the Municipality of Yopal has launched a public service campaign to alert drivers of heavy vehicles to the traffic signs and rules, as the authority says it has received community complaints that these drivers are causing problems on the public roadways.
The Casanare Comptroller has issued findings from an audit for the fiscal year 2013 and found irregularities across a wide swath of the departmental government’s spending which adds up to some CoP$40.91B (US$22.18M).
Pacfic Rubiales says it is fully behind the work of the Tracking Committee of Royalty Investment (CSIR) as it works to audit and identify the use of royalties generated by oil producers.
Striking construction workers involved in the Cartagena Refinery expansion project reached an agreement with the contractor in charge of the labor, CB&I to return to their posts and start negotiations this week.
The General Royalty System (SGR) published a summary of the funds it paid out to approved projects in the months of May and June. In total CoP$63.438M (US$33.4M) in payments were sent for the period to 59 individual projects.