Local hiring, road maintenance and safety standards were all discussed at departmental meetings in Casanare, where local authorities have been working to facilitate a smoother relationship between oil companies and local communities. This and other stories regarding Colombia’s roads.
The Coveñas/Caño Limon pipeline has become the prime target of guerrilla attacks on oil infrastructure, with the latest a week ago forcing another stop in service while authorities repair the damage.
In Meta a tribunal laments the lack of action or interest on road issues from the national government while logistics firm Impala has taken a new, more aggressive strategy to ensuring that transportation contractors comply with routes and regulations. These and other stories involving Colombia’s contested roadways.
The Oleoducto de los Llanos Orientales (ODL) pipeline was conceived in 2007, predating the success of the Rubiales field, and today it is one of the few pipeline projects that is exceeding expectations, cashing in on production in Meta.
Multiple projects for new hydrocarbons ports are planned for Cartagena and Buenaventura. The Buenaventura projects are additional to the plans that the Pacific Pipeline has for connecting the Llanos to Asia Pacific markets.
President Juan Manuel Santos, in the heat of his contested re-election promised to restrict the flow tanker trucks on the roads of Huila, promising to ship oil via Ecuador, banning the tankers presence on Sundays and holidays after residents expressed their complaints.
The Empresa Energía de Bogotá (EEB) has bought a 7.78% stake in the Pacific Pipeline through subsidiary, Transportadora de Gas Internacional (TGI), after EEB paid US$880M to take its control of TGI from 68.05% to 99.97%.
The delay-plagued modernization and expansion project at the Cartagena Refinery (Reficar) should be finished in December of this year, with an operational start for the 16 new refining units in the second quarter of 2015.
The TransAndino pipeline has a capacity of 47mbd per day and so should be able to handle about 87% of Putumayo’s current production. But the inability to protect the pipeline and the opening of export routes through Ecuador could leave it underutilized.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) held workshops and drills with municipalities, civil defense authorities, firefighters and health officials to implement and certify its contingency plan along the security-challenged Coveñas/Caño Limón Pipeline.
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