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(Almost) everything peaked in 2012

(Almost) everything peaked in 2012

Clients ask us for quick graphs from our statistical databases for their presentations or other studies. (You can too!) Having done a number of these lately, it struck our Analyst that the peaks all occurred at the same time (roughly) 2012.

Sunday, August 23rd, 2015
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Why does it feel like things are moving sideways?

The Northern Europeans are probably jubilant with the events of the last couple of weeks and editorial cartoonists have started once again to lampoon President Juan Manuel Santos’ alleged Nobel Peace Prize ambitions.

Monday, August 10th, 2015
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Ecopetrol becoming a transportation company?

Ecopetrol becoming a transportation company?

We doubt that CEO Juan Carlos Echeverry would agree with the statement in our title and it is admittedly, more than a little exaggerated for effect. But the company’s profits at least are shifting towards the hydrocarbons transportation line-of-business.

Monday, August 10th, 2015
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A guide or a warning on the Amazon?

The Amazon region represents both an area with interesting prospects for the hydrocarbons industry but also immense complexities.

Monday, August 3rd, 2015
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Crude prices moving in the wrong direction

Crude prices moving in the wrong direction

At one time in late May, there was a hope that oil prices were rebounding, that somewhat like 2008/2009 there would be a rapid so-called ‘V-shaped’ recovery.

Sunday, August 2nd, 2015
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Colombian rig counts continue to fall

Colombian rig counts continue to fall

Between comments by Campetrol President Rubén Dario Lizarralde, stories about services companies in trouble by Colombia’s Superintendent of Companies and reading between the lines of E&P companies’ comments about Capex, no one should be surprised by the overall shape of this graph.

Monday, July 27th, 2015
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What we have here is a failure to communicate

The Colombian mining industry has developed a tool to monitor elite-, press- and local-community-perceptions of the sector.

Sunday, July 26th, 2015
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And if it was a multinational?

This article by contributor León Teicher first appeared in Colombia’s national business newspaper, Portafolio. We think it perfectly captures the frustration most of us feel over the asymmetry between environmental management of major companies and the environmental damage by traditional agriculture or, as in this case, by the guerrilla.

Sunday, July 19th, 2015
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Many guerrilla-initiated incidents lately but most barrels not so exposed

Many guerrilla-initiated incidents lately but most barrels not so exposed

The Farc announced the end of their unilateral truce on the 22nd of May and another one will start on July 20th. In between has been one of the more intense periods of violence in recent memory with a significant amount of the incidents directed specifically at oil and as infrastructure.

Sunday, July 19th, 2015
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Colombian committed companies improve performance somewhat in 2Q15

Colombian committed companies improve performance somewhat in 2Q15

On average, the major Colombian-committed producers improved their performance relative to global indices. The curve shows the average of all the stocks we track (see Methodology Note) adjusted for the average of the TSX Oil and Gas index (TXOI) and the corresponding NYSE index (^XOI) – a proxy for the global performance of oil and gas stocks generally.

Monday, July 13th, 2015
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