With less than two months left in this government, the most important measure from the package announced in September 2015 is not going to happen. The bureaucrats have effectively killed the idea of permanent block assignments by avoiding doing anything before time expired.
As the Santos Government comes to a close, we are back to the ‘Everything is awesome!!!’ campaign, this time with respect to royalties. It did not convince us last time and although the evidence is compelling, we do not agree with the evaluation criterion, so we remain unconvinced.
The National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) reported Colombian exports value in April. It increased compared to the same period last year and the extractive sector played a key role in this behavior.
In a wide-ranging interview with RCN Radio, leading Presidential candidate Iván Duque said he would save oil industry income from good years to have a reserve for the bad ones.
Julio Cesar Vera, President of the Colombian Association of Petroleum Engineers (Acipet), spoke about the current situation of the industry in Colombia, its relationship with communities and oil prices in an interview with La Silla Vacía.
The La Lizama story will not die. The Inspector General’s office has opened investigations against a number of Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) executives and against senior leadership in the ANH, the ANLA and the Santander regional environmental authority (CAS). Two ECP VPs have been suspended for three months.
Royalty money continues to be allocated to projects, but poor execution dulls its impact. A housing project in Arauca is the latest example. This story and others in our latest periodic summary of royalties-related stories.
No, we are not talking about Gustavo Petro’s plans to shift Colombia’s energy matrix to renewables, although that might turn out to be one part of the solution. Instead, MinMinas is looking for medium and long-term proposals without prejudging the technology.
Newspaper La Republica recently published an excellent distillation of the essential differences between the two remaining candidates for Colombia’s Presidency, Iván Duque and Gustavo Petro.
The Colombian oil sector is experiencing times of great uncertainty, due to the presidential elections and the boom in the anti-oil referendums. This situation could affect the development of several agreements between the government and oil companies, especially the Exploration and Production (E&P) contracts. We will analyze the production that is at stake due to this situation.
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