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Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) Orinoquia sets minimum investment requirements from municipalities for CSR projects meanwhile the NOC completes a potable water project benefiting 60 rural schools in Meta. These and other stories on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in our periodic summary.

Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) president Juan Carlos Echeverry made his first official visit to the Barrancabermeja Refinery, where he said the NOC lacks the money for a modernization, but instead said it would take place in stages.

In a change of strategy the USO says it has direct workers with Pacific Rubiales (TSE:PRE) that have decided to affiliate themselves with the USO, and the union has submitted a list of demands.

A mix of social organizations, municipal governments, the departmental government and control entities such as the Regional Controller met in Puerto Asís and signed a regional peace agreement in light of the human rights violations which have taken place in the conflict-ridden department of Putumayo.

The legal representative of a transportation contractor has been arrested as the intellectual author of the murder of Edith del Consuelo Santos Jiménez, in a case that displays the dark side of how some local companies are awarded contracts.

The Colombian Llanos has been one of Colombia’s top producers, especially in Meta. But with slashed investment budgets the region’s main operators and authorities are adjusting to current oil prices in different ways.

Parex invested CoP$22.7B (US$9M) in sustainability projects in 2014 while Equión promotes farming in Yopal. These and other stories on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in our periodic summary.

The USO released a statement denouncing the recent violence between the Farc and the Colombian army and called for an immediate bilateral truce

The Colombian Chamber of Oil Goods and Services (Campetrol) executive president Rubén Dario Lizarralde has called for royalty funds which are not assigned to projects be returned to producing regions for development projects.

Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC), is under fire for not following through on CSR commitments in Pompeya while Gran Tierra Energy (TSX:GTE) donates a pediatric wing to the Mocoa hospital. These and other stories on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in our periodic summary.