Led by the Casanare Chamber of Commerce (CCC), 12 business leaders from the local Oil & Gas Services Cluster participated in a trade mission to the United States to explore new markets and make business ties in hopes of stimulating their business.
Emboldened by the recent decision for Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) to directly operate the Rubiales field, the USO has now taken direct issue with the NOC president Juan Carlos Echeverry, who the union claims is dismantling the company to be privatized and targeting workers in favor of multinationals.
Nearly three thousand Colombians have benefited from Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) professional training initiative over the last year, while Hocol invests in sponsoring local festivals. These and other stories on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in our periodic summary.
The USO says that its effort and persistence to pressure Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) to directly operate the Rubiales field amounts to a historic achievement for the union. Now it has called for workers in the field to join the USO and plans to increase its pressure to carry out the modernization of the Barrancabermeja Refinery.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC), through the Colombian Petroleum Institute (ICP) is developing heavy crude water removal technology and has also inaugurated a number of community projects in Meta. These and other stories on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in our periodic summary.
The USO claims that Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) has been misleading the value and potential of its assets so it can justify privatizing them, pointing out that multinationals have taken over fields with poor production and managed to improve them.
Geologists have felt the strongest impact from the fall in oil prices as companies slash their investments in drilling and exploration, but there are still some niches that remain in high demand in Colombia.
Ecopetrol invests in improving educational infrastructure in Casanare, meanwhile the firm also promises the construction of a college campus in Granada. These and other stories on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in our periodic summary.
The twisted system which dictates local hiring in Meta for oil projects is getting more attention, and a local paper says that the murder of community leader Edith Santos just over a year ago has helped unveil the dark process and its benefactors.
In its latest accusation against Pacific E&P (TSX:PRE), the USO claims the firm has been actively campaigning to block its workers from joining the union ranks, and so will take legal action against the operator.
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