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The National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) has presented a CoP$7T (US$3.7B) budget for “megaprojects” to improve road infrastructure in the Meta Department, considering the increased oil production, agro-industrial development and general increase in the department’s commercial activity.

Ecopetrol’s transportation company Cenit is preparing a three pillared plan designed to reduce the industry’s costs associated with producing heavy crude as this takes a growing share of overall extraction in Colombia.

Citing a “high rate of accidents” due to the amount of heavy trucks on the roads in Casanare, the Casanare Secretary of Transportation has issued a resolution that prohibits heavy trucks, including the tankers carrying oil, from using the roadways on weekends on holidays.

The Bicentennial Pipeline (OBC) will alter the route of the second phase of the project in search of better security conditions, as well as considering geographical, environmental and logical issues.

The municipality of Trinidad in the Casanare Department says that a public-private partnership has allowed the entity to make repairs to the local well site and has applauded the relationship between the mayor Jesus Cuevas and oil producers operating in the region.

Company executives of the Cartagena Refinery say that striking construction workers are not affecting the current production in the plant, although it is pushing the expansion costs higher.

The Autonomous Corporation of Alto Magdalena (CAM) says that none of the 12 hydrocarbons transport firms operating in the department have a contingency plan approved by the regional authority.

Colombia’s National Learning Institute (SENA) has made a public call for bids to build a new training center that will specialize in hydrocarbons in Puerto Gaitan.

Colombia’s national government will look to improve the efficiency of logistics and transportation by “rehabilitating” its rail infrastructure through stimulus packages that encourage investments in trains in the center of the country.

The Pacific Pipeline project took a step towards reality after the firm leading the project, Canada’s Enbridge, presented a document that detailed two possible routes that would take it from San Martin in Meta to the Buenaventura port.