The Minister of Mines and energy German Arce made a call to keep the oil industry healthy and competitive during a presentation given at the International Forum of Regulatory Agencies 2016.
The Colombian Petroleum Association (ACP) said that authorities should allow greater fuel imports to serve national supply during production and distribution problems from infrastructure issues and strikes.
The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinMinas) said that it has delivered resources from its production incentive program to benefit both victims of the armed conflict and environmental recovery in the Cesar Cepartment.
The University of Los Andes and the Law-Firm Palacios Abogados organized a seminar about legal security and community conflict in the mining industry. Some topics discussed at the event are like those in the hydrocarbons sector; we bring a brief summary of the meeting.
The political magazine Semana organized a forum called “Restitution transforms lives and builds peace” in Bogotá. HCC was present at the event; we bring a brief summary of the meeting.
The president of Colombia’s Congress, Senator Mauricio Lizcano has an ambitious and tight schedule ahead for the remainder of the 2016 legislative season, with several big items on their way including the pending tax reform and the peace agreements between the government and the Farc.
The Colombian Chamber of Oil Goods and Services (Campetrol) wants the government to create a special “single window” for the oil industry that would handle all of the processes and requests associated with the licensing and socialization process.
The 2017-18 budget for the General Royalty System has passed through its first debate in the joint Senate and Lower House economic commissions, but the debate did uncover many of the complaints against the system and its results.
Controversy over ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) project in Cesár has brought unconventional technologies back into the press limelight and the balance has not been positive.
During the recent debates on the 2017-2018 royalty budget, Centro Democratico Senators Ivan Duque and Oscar Darío Pérez complained that most projects were subscale and so lacked impact. With the data we collected for our recent long article on fairness, we had the information necessary to look at the question.
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