Communities in Casanare, Meta and Barrancabermeja had altercations with Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) and Pacific Exploration and Production’s (TSX: PEN) staff, alleging the companies are not hiring local workers to develop their projects, and Promigas awarded full scholarships for students of the Caribbean region. These and other Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects in our periodic summary.
The department of Santander has a new high-tech oil and gas laboratory. The Santander Technologies Unit is leading this important project.
Citizens and social leaders of Guamal’s municipality in Meta have called a march for the ‘defense of water and life’ and against the development of oil projects in the area.
The USO’s major topics of discussion during this week were the ‘labor massacre’ to which workers of the Masa Stork plant will supposedly be put through, legal issues with Naviera Fluvial S.A, corruption and the consequences of Terpel’s so-called fuel monopoly.
Ecopetrol and Putumayo’s Chamber of Commerce invested to improve competitiveness in science and technology and Bancoldex and Norte de Santander’s tourism sector are rehabilitating fuel smugglers. These and other Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects in our periodic summary.
The panorama presented by the Regional Economic Bulletin (BER) for the departments of Meta, Casanare, Amazonas, Guainía, Guaviare, Vaupés and Vichada, corresponding to 3Q16 was not very encouraging. 2017 will bring big challenges for Colombia’s southeastern region’s economy.
Óscar Sánchez, president of USO Bucaramanga said that appointing Luis Guillermo Vélez Atehourtua as head of Ecopetrol’s health administration motivated them to start the year with a peaceful takeover Bucaramanga’s CAL (medical center).
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) budgeted over CoP$10B for projects to improve the conditions and quality of life in communities of Meta, Casanare and Vichada. These and other Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects in our periodic summary.
The USO said that by appointing Luis Guillermo Vélez Atehortúa as head of Ecopetrol’s health administration, Juan Carlos Echeverry made a ‘tactical’ move to begin to diminish the guarantees of the 70.000 users of the health system, embodied in the collective labor agreement.
A recent report from the government’s statistics bureau DANE confirmed that in 2015 the departments of Meta, Casanare and Santander represented 75% of the oil industry’s value in GDP terms. We looked at something related but more interesting as shown in the above graph.
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