MinMinas released December crude oil production and natural gas consumption figures which allowed the quarterly and annual results to be calculated.
A Casanare land owner is accusing Lewis Energy Colombia of working outside the bounds of its environmental license, which she says has affected a local river and flooded her land, and that the company has also been under reporting its production, while one report suggests the dispute is about compensation for production rights on her land.
The National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) has unveiled some of the specifics for the 2014 Colombia round production block auction, from which it hopes to attract over US$2.6B by assigning 112 blocks.
The National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) has released three key documents that will establish the regulatory structure to be used for unconventional E&P, and will accept comments from third parties this week.
The Colombian Petroleum Association (ACP) says growth next year will only be 2.3% which means a projection of 1.03mmbd versus the expected result for this year of 1.006mmbd. The graph shows this means fairly flat growth.
Looking to brush off concerns that the recent vote against oil production in the Tauramena Municipality, The Minister of Mines and Energy (MinMinas), Amylkar Acosta said that the government has been meeting with local authorities and there are already laws on the book that adequately address the protection of water resources.
The Municipality of Tauramena, Casanare held its public referendum on Sunday, December 15th and those who came out voted a sounding no, although the total turnout amounted to just over 34% of the population, narrowly passing the 33% turnout needed for the vote to be valid.
The government engaged a multi-pronged push back against a public referendum that looks to reject oil production near municipal water sources in Tauramena, Casanare which included ministers and Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) president Javier Gutiérrez.
A national newspaper has published alarming findings that accuse the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) of allegedly of losing 60% of the technical and geographical data gleaned over the last 13 years due to problems in the migration of database that housed the information.
Nearly two months after it was first detected, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development and the National Environmental Licensing Authority (ANLA) have declared an environmental emergency at the Cartagena location of Carman International due to oil leakage.