The Minister of Mines and Energy Amylkar Acosta has ruled out a new price freeze on diesel while transportation associations and fuel retailers repeat demands that the cost must drop.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) has suspended its NFE Backland project, involving a new well in the Cupiagua field, after it received ‘undue pressure’ from the community over local hiring and its social investment, which the NOC says exceeded expectations.
There was lots of speculation leading up to the Ecopetrol (NYSE:ECP) Special Assembly today. However it was anticlimactic in the final result.
A corruption scandal involving a pair of US former PetroTiger executives who paid an now ex-Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) engineer more than US$300,000 to win a nearly US$50M contract has rattled Colombia’s oil industry, and the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinMinas) issued a thorough release in which it establishes the engineer was working as a rogue and that the NOC is another victim.
Following a blockade that limited access to the Rubiales field by local truckers that want a larger role in the transport of crude, Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) has announced a new contractor selection process designed to open opportunities for local suppliers.
Ecopetrol’s board recently approved the company’s CAPEX budget as we reported yesterday in an article that focused on the Refining and Petrochemical business. Today we step back to look at the panorama.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) announced its Capex plan for 2014, with the NOC focusing nearly all of its US$10.6B within Colombia and its wholly owned projects as the firm looks to keep production levels in line with government goals in an election year.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) and Talisman announce commercial viability in CPO-09 block, which will add 35 million barrels of reserves and marks the second addition by the NOC in as many weeks.
Only a day after Ecopetrol and Talisman announced a major discovery in CPO-9, comes this story about complaints of odors in another part of the municipality of Acacias, Meta.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) has declared to Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency the commercial viability of the Eastern Caño Sur block, adding 22.4 million barrels of 1P reserves.
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