The head of the National Environmental Licensing Agency (ANLA) Claudia Victoria González Hernández and MinAmbiente Luis Gilberto Murillo made a visit to Cartagena as part of a national campaign to meet with the teams of regional environmental entities.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) has reiterated its call for dialogue at the Gibraltar gas plant, and that the U’wa community is putting itself and the installation at risk, so the NOC has brought in personnel to secure the facility. It insists that there are no public forces present, although local press reports contradict this.
A conflict between Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) subsidiary Hocol with an indigenous community in Ortega, Tolima has stretched for more than eight months and shows no signs of improvement. Now the municipality is warning it has no resources for public services as a result.
The government and striking truckers signed an agreement last Friday to end a violent and costly 45 day strike, which affected various other economic sectors. Now the first details of the agreement have started to reach press
The government has rejected the takeover of the Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) Gibraltar gas plant by the U´wa indigenous people in Norte de Santander, but ruled out taking it back by force until it has exhausted all other options.
The Constitutional Court approved the government’s plan to hold a referendum to accept or reject the peace agreements made with the Farc.
The General Controller has warned that both national and regional entities must reconsider their finances and plan to limit and correct their dependence on oil resources for public investments, although the central government does not believe investment for regions will be hard hit for now.
The National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) has created a standardized set of labor profiles for the hydrocarbons sector, in an attempt to reduce conflicts associated with labor intermediaries.
The Colombian Association of Oil Engineers (ACIPET) believes, like its association peers, that the difficult scenario facing the oil industry today could bring average production down to 890,000bd by the end of the year.
It has been a while since we have seen anyone write about peak oil in Colombia, but a recent column said that embracing fracking is a flawed attempt by the Colombian government to delay the effect of peak oil in the country, when instead it should be investing in renewable energies.