A caravan of tanker trucks was attacked with rifle fire while traveling on the road that connects the municipalities of San Vicente del Caguán with Puerto Rico, northern Caquetá.
Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) said that the La Cira Infantas field suffered a terrorist attack.
An employee of the consulting firm Consultec, in the service of Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC), was kidnapped on January 13th, in Tibú (Norte de Santander).
Theft from oil pipelines in Colombia is booming as criminal gangs look to replace dwindling supplies of smuggled Venezuelan gasoline for use in the drug trade.
Before the peace agreement with the Farc we kept statistics on security incidents that occurred near oil infrastructure. We stopped collecting the statistics when incidents fell off dramatically (or the press stopped reporting them). But now things are getting complicated in Catatumbo especially and a reader asked if we had any uptime statistics on the Coveñas /Caño Limón (CCL) pipeline which passes through some of the ‘hot spots’.
Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) and CENIT announced new attacks against pipelines.
The report ‘Los focos del conflicto en Colombia’, carried out by the Instituto de Estudios para el Desarrollo y la Paz (Indepaz) talked about membership of these illegal groups.
It has been four months since we last updated our Covid-19 tracking charts, time enough for Colombia’s Third Wave to come and go. The country is now at its lowest infection level since the early days of the pandemic but other countries are riding the delta variant to a new fourth, peak.
The Colombian Association of Petroleum Engineers (Acipet) denounces the attacks on the country’s oil infrastructure.
Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) denounced the violent actions against oil facilities in the La Cira Infantas field (Barrancabermeja).
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