Acipet, the petroleum engineers’ association has been an important voice in defense of the industry’s interests. Here, the organization’s Chairman of the Board, Carlos Alberto Leal Niño, argues that the important work of transitioning away from fossil fuels in the future should be financed by developing the country’s hydrocarbons today.
Last week was a controversial one in Colombia’s congress with the ongoing battle over peace process implementation, approval of royalty reform in its opening debate and the final authorization of the government’s long-term economic plan (known as the PND for its initials in Spanish). The press reacted strongly to a clause about fracking but the politics of how one newspaper reacted was surprising, to me at least.
It has been some time since we looked at Colombia’s downstream sector so this week we update some of our charts.
As we reported recently, what we have been calling the “Commission of Experts” published their final report. It is 173 pages (in Spanish obviously) and not exactly stimulating reading (which shows its scientific ‘cred’). We abridged the two recommendations chapters, 13 and 14, and translated them into English. We hope you find it useful.
Just a short summary this quarter of our index of publicly-traded Colombia-focused E&P stocks because not much has changed.
One of the biggest changes by this new government has been finally launching the new Permanent Bidding Process. Originally announced in September 2015, it would be an understatement to say this has had a long gestation period. But it has finally arrived. We asked Marianna Boza and the team at Brigard Urrutia to give our readers an overview.
The publicly-traded Colombia-focused E&P companies have reported so we can publish our industry-wide netback estimates. Lower oil prices naturally had a negative impact on 4Q18 netbacks but, overall, 2018 was a good year.
Once again, the Analyst thought of some charts he really would have wanted to publish in last week’s article about the NOC’s Line of Business (LoB) results but did not think of until a few days later. We know. We will speak to him about that. But he is right, the graphs are interesting so we will publish them this week.
Inspired by the rapid approach of baseball season, two short rather than one long comment this week, one on 2018 results so far and one on fracking, inspired by MinMinas naming five companies as being interested.
Ecopetrol published its results this past week and CEO Felipe Bayón was rightly trumpeting the NOC’s earnings for their contribution to the nation’s coffers. But hidden in the results presentation was worsening margins in the Refining Line-of-Business (LoB).
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