The challenge for Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) over the last year and a half under Juan Carlos Echeverry has been to guarantee its cash flow, cut costs and maintain disciplined in its spending, but now the firm can turn the page and start to focus on production.
Two fields in Meta previously closed by Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) due to the fall in oil prices will now be brought back online at some point in the next month and a half.
Equion’s president María Victoria Riaño credits positive results despite hard times to a Company culture which emphasis the positive and reinforces the importance of individual workers, improving the efficiency of the company and its ability to adapt quickly and generate new ideas.
Pacific E&P said that the Ontario Superior Court has approved the company’s restructuring deal, after its board of directors opted to remain committed to an agreement with Catalyst Capital to restructure the firm and its outstanding debt, despite a last minute counter offer.
The Superintendent of Industry and Commerce has opened an investigation of Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) and a suppliers association in Meta, based on accusations of forming a cartel to control the production and distribution of construction materials destined for the oil industry.
E&P firm Hocol says that it will drill an exploration well, named “Pegaso”, in the CPO 16 block, located in La Macarena, Meta, near the area where an exploration program of Hupecol caused widespread controversy and a revoked license.
After successive production growth, Geopark´s (NYSE:GPRK) oil and gas production dropped for the first time, but the firm was able to shrink its loss compared to the first quarter and last year.
As Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) closed an intense six months which included the operational launch of the Cartagena Refinery (Reficar), the handover of Cusiana and Rubiales and a management restructuring. The firm reported that during the second quarter its production has faltered but its financial results improve on the first quarter of the year.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) has started the process of naming a new president for the Cartagena Refinery, with an international headhunt expected to bring an executive with precise knowledge of the petrochemical market and refining operations.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) has announced that the Gunflint field has started producing 20,000bd, of which its US subsidiary has a 31.5% share, and the NOC highlighted the strategic nature of this sort of asset.