From time to time, we like to look around the Latin American region and see how Colombia compares to its main rivals. This week Denton’s Jorge Neher takes a look at the off-again / on-again love affair between Ecuador and the oil industry. It seems like the mutual affection is on again and there are interesting opportunities.
On August 7th, 2018, the Presidency of Juan Manuel Santos will come to an end. How was it on balance for the oil and gas industry? We will assemble the statistical evidence in an Analyst’s Desk article and, in this multi-part article, I look at some of the more qualitative assessments.
In our final article based on BP’s update to its energy statistics, we look at a couple of topics we do not usually extensively cover in HCC: the domestic demand side, specifically refining and electricity generation, with a closer look at renewables.
Bogotá’s Chamber of Commerce hosted an event where industry entrepreneurs and public entities talked about the Most-Affected Areas by the Conflict (Zomac). We attended and brought back comments from the industry as well as our own impressions.
A few weeks ago, we looked at BP’s recently published annual statistical summary of the global energy market. At that time, we did some country-by-country comparisons in a static view. This week we look at changes over time, within Latin America.
A few weeks ago, the National Hydrocarbons Agency (“ANH”) published its new model contract for offshore exploration and production activities. Although some parameters are specific to offshore, others reflect how the Agency’s thinking has evolved since 2014, the last time it held a block auction to award offshore areas. Norton Rose Fulbright Colombia’s oil & gas team volunteered to write this summary.
It is the end of the second quarter (already?) so we decided to update our favorite charts about oil prices movements, including futures.
We have been very concerned about the civil disobedience caused by the ANH’s seismic investigation in Boyacá. There was a public hearing last Friday to discuss the situation and well-known industry figure, Jaime Checa attended. He brought back this report (with photos) which only deepens our concern.
BP recently published its annual statistical summary of the global energy market and we thought it might be interesting to look at a few selected charts. The focus was country-by-country comparisons and, by looking at energy consumption broadly, we chose some variables that might be a bit different.
Recently, we published an article about the mining industry in Cundinamarca. The departmental Controller was concerned that environmental licenses were not be properly monitored. A reader reacted to the article with an interesting recommendation and that got me thinking about the challenges of implementing it.
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