Poor visibility appears to be the cause of a tanker-trucker accident that led to a spill of crude near the banks of the Cusiana River. GeoPark, the producer who extracted the crude, says it had no responsibility in the matter but has acted to mitigate any environmental damage or impact.
Pacific Rubiales has come across the remains of an indigenous group that date back 700 years in what now is an exploratory block.
Pacific Rubiales CEO Ronald Pantin says that recent changes to simplify environmental licenses will improve its timelines for the environmental permit process in Colombia, which in the short term will lead to approval of a license to operate the CPE-6 block in the Llanos basin.
An international study found that despite Colombia’s status as the country with the second most biodiversity in the world, it is among the 40 countries that do the least to protect this rich variety.
The municipal council members of Villavicencio have sent a formal request to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos to debate issues surrounding hydrocarbons exploration and extraction in the surrounding area.
A decree expected in late July will reportedly shorten the environmental licensing process for small changes to conventional projects that already have gained approval.
Colombian oil producer Raven held a socialization meeting to present the project diagnostic for a pipeline that will connect its operations with the Bicentennial Pipeline.
Delays in environmental licensing are seen as the main cause in an 8% drop in rentals of perforating drills in January-May 2013.
Oil extractor Equion has refuted accusations from the community action board president of El Morro, Jorge Castro, saying that it is complying with environmental measures to protect the water and that no one has invested more in the roads than it has.
More than 40 points of the Catatumba pipeline were detonated over the weekend creating an environmental emergency as crude flows into the surrounding area.
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