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Bottom Line: MinMinas “propaganda” to encourage vehicle conversion to gas.

Bottom Line: The changes are logical, permitting a company to take advantage of conventional opportunities discovered in a unconventional block and vice versa, obviously with some adjustments in the case where the cheaper and less stringent unconventional blocks.

Bottom Line: Expressions of outrage over the killing of five Ecopetrol contractors at the hands of the Farc.

Bottom Line: The indigenous community consultation phase for the new Mining Code will start next week.

Bottom Line: Venezuela proposes maintaining prices between US$80 and US$120/barrel. Colombia agrees. The question of course is whether the price can be controlled in the face of demand-side uncertainty.

July 4, 2012 The  Colombian press has widely reported the death of five Ecopetrol maintenance sub-contractors in a bombing.

Bottom-Line: Fenoco transports thermal coal to the Colombian coast.The intervention will definitely cause disruption in the company.

Bottom Line: Cundinamarca coal producers say production will fall this year and want the government to expand available territory for production.

Source: ACP, ANH, Hydrocarbons Colombia

Actuals to April 2012

These companies have been reported to have bought the documents. Note the names of companies which have fallen out of public view for being absorbed by others or having changed their public names/brands.