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.
Colombia’s Chamber of Oil Goods and Services Campetrol recently held its first business roundtable to pair local service providers and suppliers with larger operators. The organizers say the event surpassed its expectations considering it is the first of its kind.
Ecopetrol says that in the first half of 2013 more than 37,000 people worked on job sites and projects of the NOC each month through associated contractors. While they didn’t provide any comparison figures, the company did say local labor was used to fill 72% of these positions.
The municipality of Trinidad in the Casanare Department says that a public-private partnership has allowed the entity to make repairs to the local well site and has applauded the relationship between the mayor Jesus Cuevas and oil producers operating in the region.
In July the General Royalty System (SGR) approved 67 science and technology projects which will receive CoP$588.122B (US$311.3M) in royalty funding, the most relevant funding of its sort for these ends since the new royalty system was established over a year ago.
Company executives of the Cartagena Refinery say that striking construction workers are not affecting the current production in the plant, although it is pushing the expansion costs higher.