To keep up with demand for asphalt destined for highway improvements, a firm has proposed a modernization of Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) aging Apiay Refinery in Meta, which the NOC had consider shuttering.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) was responsible for more than half of the research and development projects certified by state innovation and research agency Colciencias to obtain tax benefits in 2013.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) says violence and terrorist attacks in Catatumbo have forced it to move its office in the Convención municipality, despite the pleas of residents to stay.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:ECP) released its second quarter 2014 financial results last week on Thursday evening (July 31) and blamed a complex security situation and community blockades for a drop in production. Meanwhile on its earnings call on Tuesday (August 5) market analysts questioned the company’s plans to boost production in its top fields.
After a long awaited meeting of Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) board of directors to discuss the use of Pacific Rubiales’s STAR secondary recovery technology, the companies issued a somber news release that says the pilot in Quifa will not continue. It would appear that the technology’s prospects are null for the Rubiales field, although neither are saying that yet.
Another postponed decision and conflicting reports on the performance of Pacific Rubiales’ (TSX:PRE) secondary recovery technology Star have shrouded the project, which is the operator’s main bet for its namesake Rubiales field, in uncertainty.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) and four unions that fill its ranks have started the process to reach a new collective bargaining agreement. The last one was in place from 2009-2014 and Ecopetrol is optimistic that an agreement can be reached during direct talks.
After reaching an agreement that establishes the general terms of the negotiation for a new collective bargaining agreement, representatives from the USO and Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) started talks in Bogotá on Monday, July 14.
Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) board of directors has delayed a meeting to review a technical report on Pacific Rubiales (TSX:PRE) STAR secondary recovery technology to this week, and the Minister of Mines and Energy Amylkar Acosta has promised a decision this month.
The Minister of Mines and Energy Amylkar Acosta says that Pacific Rubiales (TSX:PRE) is not interested in an extension of the association contract for its flagship field Rubiales, offering instead to install its STAR secondary recovery technology.
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