President Santos ordered the immediate return of the new chief negotiator in the dialogues with the ELN, Gustavo Bell, after the guerrilla attacked in Casanare and Arauca.
The boom of anti-oil and mining referendums put at risk the development of these important sectors. The situation generated a lot of uncertainty, stopping operations in several municipalities around the country. However, it seems like things are calming down.
The Police and the Army committed to reinforce surveillance activities on the border between La Guajira and Venezuela, with the aim of controllingsmuggled fuel that arrives from the neighboring country. The development of these and other stories in our periodic Security summary.
The National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) invited HCC to its ‘Update of the Sinú San Jacinto (SSJ) Process’session. Here is a brief summary of what was discussed during the event.
We are now two months into the ELN ceasefire and the question we wanted to answer was whether they are keeping to their part of the deal. The answer, at least from an oil and gas infrastructure point of view, is ‘mostly’.
The chief negotiator cited ‘professional reasons’ for resigning the position.
The union said that it began a permanent assembly withEcopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) direct workers and workers from contractor firms, in each of the 53 oil stations of the national pumping system.
Gas station owners in La Guajira said that as a result of lack of State presence in the department, fuel smuggling escalated to important levels and made them declare bankruptcy. The development of these and other stories in our periodic Security Summary.
Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) reported security incidents at its Coveñas Caño Limón pipeline (CCL) in Norte de Santander. Even though measures were taken, there is still a lot to do to control public order issues in the area. The development of these and other stories in our periodic Security summary.
During the Colombian Association of Petroleum Engineers’ (Acipet) 17th Oil and Gas Congress, four of the presidential candidates for next year’s elections spoke about their proposals for the development of the industry, parallel to the implementation of the peace accords.
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