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The USO and Mansarovar Energy have reached a tentative agreement, thanks to the intervention of the Ministry of Labor and ended an ongoing strike.

The Meta governor Alan Jara says he has told the national government that the OCAD controlling bodies which approve royalty projects “continue to be a disaster and a centralist and inefficient model”.

Delegates from the Interior Ministry (MinInterior) left the comforts of Bogotá behind to meet with local authorities and members of the oil industry in Middle Magadalena as part of a plan to develop a strategy to confront social conflict, and also gave attention to contraband fuel on the border with Venezuela.

In Monterrey, commitments to build a new hospital go unfulfilled, meanwhile Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) supports small farmers in Villavicencio. These and other stories on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in our periodic summary.

After much local fanfare to call for a modernization of the Barrancabermeja Refinery, Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) reaffirmed that it would enact projects in stages to improve the facilities.

Municipal authorities of Arauca are alleging that Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) has been favored in local zoning ordinances, which they say were designed to let the NOC continue with its expansion of Caño Limon facilities.

The USO has been pushing its agenda through affiliated workers at Mansarovar and Pacific E&P (TSX:PRE), with a list of claims of abuse in each case.

Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) announces winners of their college scholarship program while also supporting youth arts education in Putumayo. These and other stories on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in our periodic summary.

In Putumayo, community and indigenous groups are pushing to keep oil out, citing its environmental effects and position as a Farc target, and also are calling to curb coca eradication programs. Coca production has brought better returns for the community than legitimate crops.

A recent study from the Neiva Chamber of Commerce in Huila found that the fall in oil prices and the shock waves it has sent through the services industry has touched on almost every part of the local economy.