The Colombian Chamber of Oil Goods and Services (Campetrol) warned that recent attacks have targeted oil companies in Caquetá and Putumayo, departments where the Transition Zones of Normalization (ZVTN) are located, and will be used to concentrate the Farc, intensifying its tone against the presence of these camps near oil projects.
The president of the Colombian Petroleum Association Francisco José Lloreda has joined calls for the government to take special actions to guarantee that special Farc concentration zones do not put hydrocarbons projects at risk.
The Farc and government have agreed to the criteria and process that will be used to select the magistrates that will form the Special Peace Tribunal, the legal entity with jurisdiction over the process of demobilizing guerrilla members and matters of the post-conflict transition.
A wave of blockades in Putumayo, Caquetá and Huila add to the 45 registered this year in a growing trend which have some speculating in the national press that companies could start suspending or canceling projects.
Putumayo oil operators have denounced the presence of new blockades being carried out by unidentified individuals near one of the Farc concentration zones, raising fresh concerns that these areas could represent a threat to the oil industry.
The Colombian Chamber of Oil Goods and Services (Campetrol) expressed its concerns that concentration zones designed to house Farc members include a number of oil producing municipalities, even though the government has said it would avoid parks, mining operations, borders or indigenous zones.
The government and Farc have announced the protocols to be used to implement the bilateral and definitive ceasefire and the laying down of arms. But a recent poll shows an alarming increase in pessimism regarding the process and that if held today, a “no” vote would win in a plebiscite.
President Juan Manuel Santos released more details on the timing for signing a final agreement with the Farc and said that the plebiscite can be ordered before the final agreement is signed.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) and the national government reached an agreement with the U’wa indigious community which allowed NOC personnel to restart and secure the Gibraltar Gas plant after weeks of U’wa occupation.
Incidents per week dropped again in July. It was not the lowest four-week period we have seen but it was low for not being an end-of-year holiday period.
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