Like all oil and gas companies in the Colombian market, Petrominerales must be concerned with its investment in community relations. These investments fall into two buckets: compliance and long term, sustainable, program-oriented initiatives.
On Tuesday December 11 union leader Milton Enrique Rivas was killed in Puerto Gaitán (Meta). Rivas worked for Termotécnica, embroiled in a dispute with the Petroleum Workers Union (USO), and was killed a few meters from the company’s offices.
We recently attended a lively and interesting session on this topic, organized by national news magazine Semana and sponsored by the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH).
The National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) announced that oil production in November was 970,632 bpd, although the figure had been reported even before the end of the month (which should raise questions about how it is calculated).
The National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) was active this week with announcements of the final results of the supplemental auction round, phase 2 of the 2012 Round of auctions, an accounting of its actions for the year and a number of press interviews highlighting plans for next year.
The big news this week without question was the purchase of C&C Energy (aka CyC Energia) by Pacific Rubiales.
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This was a big week for corporate results with five more companies reporting.
The Colombia-Canada Chamber of Commerce’s Dialogue Canada event on Thursday, November 15, 2012 offered its attendees a rare treat: the chance to see the head of the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), Orlando Cabrales, Pacific Rubiales’ Jose Francisco Arata, Talisman’s Chris Spaulding and Petrominerales’ Jack Scott all on the same stage.
We had lunch last week with Rafael Nieto, lawyer, ex-vice minister of justice in the Uribe government, ex-president of Greystar/Eco Gold, newspaper columnist and founder of the firm NSG which helps companies with issues of community relations and environmental permits.
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