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The appointment of a consultant and costs of the popular action have become an issue in the judicial process involving Gran Tierra (TSX:GTE).

Presidential candidate Gustavo Petro proposed a total change to Colombia’s economic model, where oil and mining activities are replaced by a productive agro industrial economy.

The Center for Economic Studies of the National Association of Financial Institutions (ANIF) conducted a study on the petrochemical value chain in 2017, and its future perspectives under the direction of Sergio Clavijo and Alejandro Vera and Juan Diego Londoño’s collaboration.

Colombia faced hard times in recent years, but it seems like it survived. Projections are positive but conservative and different experts talked about the country’s economic challenges to growth.

The Minister of Mines and Energy (MinMinas), Germán Arce, appointed two engineers as expert commissioners in the Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission (CREG).

Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) and PentaNova Energy Corporation (TSXV: PNO) announced changes in their executive positions.

Recently, Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) got the public’s attention about the violence in southern Meta with a ‘gee whiz’ estimate of how much oil production was at risk. That got our Analyst thinking about production concentration and risk.

The Sinu San Jacinto bid round was announced with great fanfare on September 12^th, 2017. The auction was supposed to have completed before the end of that year. Now, quietly, the date keeps slipping.

Recent movements in oil prices and in the Colombian peso have us asking again about whether higher oil prices lead to a stronger Colombian peso.

Deputy Minister of Mines and Energy, Carlos Cante, is currently in Oslo (Norway) participating in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) summit.