The Colombia-Canada Chamber of Commerce held a session for the oil and gas industry with the ANH’s Javier Betancourt Valle. He was accompanied by vice presidents Nicolas Mejia Mejia (Promotion and Assignment of Areas) and Carlos Mantilla McCormick (Hydrocarbons Contracts).
The Colombian Petroleum Association (ACP) says that it expects 140 exploratory wells to be drilled in 2014, a number which is 20% above its total for last year but well below lofty projections from the National Hydrocarbons Agency, which expects 233.
In Huila and Putumayo, the number of tankers on the road has dropped by 40% since an announcement three weeks ago from President Juan Manuel Santos that pipelines would be used instead of trucks when possible to reach the Tumaco port.
The Monterrey municipal council says it will go ahead with a public referendum to accept or reject oil exploration and production near the municipal water resources despite warnings and court rulings that this task is reserved for the national government.
Pacific Rubiales (TSX:PRE) president Jose Francisco Arata published an opinion piece in the magazine of a national paper and talked about what would contribute to a stable, developed economy and industry in 2074.
Colombia’s Association of Natural Gas, Naturgas, held its annual conference last week in Cartagena and drove a message home of growth and potential for the industry. Here we publish a summary of some of the highlights.
The School of International Affairs of Columbia University is conducting a study of Colombia’s mining and energy boom and the best practices that the country, and extractive companies can adopt to best take advantage of this boom.
This week the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinMinas) issued a number of statements covering policy items, including a lesson on international price trends, a message of support for the mining and energy sector from President Juan Manuel Santos and a forecast that fuel prices would fall.
Faithful readers will know we always try to have a graph. We saved today’s slot for March production but it has not been published yet. So we decided to have some fun. After all, it is Friday and we are frequently criticized for being way too serious.
The mayor of Meta’s capital Villavicencio Juan Guillermo Zuluaga has called for a green tax for oil companies to compensate financially for the environmental toll on the producing and surrounding region.
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