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Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) shifted its exports from Asia to Central America and the Caribbean. Could Venezuela’s need to end subsidies in Petrocaribe be the driver?

Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) transport and logistics spin off Cenit saw an increase in its transported volume in 2014 despite standing out as one of the guerrilla’s favorite targets in the same year.

The president of oil & gas E&P firm Vetra Humberto Calderón Berti gave a rare press interview and said that the Llanos and Putumayo offer much in terms of prospectively, but the lack of infrastructure, high costs and public order issues represent the largest obstacles.

Despite a weakening of credit indicators for the oil industry and a combined debt of nearly CoP$7T, Colombia’s Central Bank has said that the financial sector is not at any risk due to the potential of unpaid obligations.

At the end of November 2014, reports surfaced that the Cartagena Refinery would be functional in January 2015 and see its commercial launch in August 2015. But in Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) latest earning results, management said that once again, that timeframe will be pushed back.

Canacol Energy (TSX:CNE) reported that daily production volumes increased by 1% in the first quarter 2015 (its Fiscal Year 2015 third quarter), but that peso devaluation and global oil prices led to a net loss.

Pacific Rubiales Energy (TSX:PRE) said that it has posted record production in the first quarter of 2015 despite a 17% yearly decline from its flagship Rubiales field, but ended up in the red for the second consecutive quarter.

Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) saw its revenues hit by the fall in oil prices, but managed to reverse losses felt in the final quarter of 2014, posting a consolidated net income of CoP$160B (US$67.32M) as production holds and margins in its transportation and refining businesses improve.

Parex Resources (TSX:PXT) narrowed its net loss in the first quarter of 2015, and registered production above its projections for the period.

Canacol Energy (TSX:CNE) has announced its 2015 Capex plan which includes an investment of US$84M for its operations in Colombia and Ecuador. Due to uncertainty on the price of crude, the firm says it has focused on its gas reserves, and expects 60% of its production immune to fluctuations in the price of crude .