A convoy with nearly two dozen tankers full of crude were stopped on their way to Ecuador by the Farc and forced to open their valves. The tankers were following an alternative route that has been proposed as a safer option to shipping the crude via truck or pipeline across Colombia.
The peace process received words of support from some big names this week, from former world leaders to a multi-denominational group of religious leaders, but the security conditions needed on the ground to continue with the talks receives its fair amount of questions at home.
The ELN guerrilla staged a devastating attack on the Coveñas/Caño Limon pipeline on Sunday which is leading many to question the government’s strategy of holding peace talks without guarantees of a cease fire.
The department of Casanare has felt an uptick in attacks which have included selective targeting of individuals, burned tanker trucks and leaflets threatening an “armed strike” by the ELN guerrilla as its 50 year anniversary approaches on the 4th of July.
With a sudden surge in guerrilla-initiated activity in the Llanos, security incidents near oil and gas infrastructure went up to 31 this week, below recent and long-term averages.
Call it amnesty, call it impunity, the question of how much justice will have to be sacrificed to reach an agreement and demobilize the guerrilla sits top of mind in the peace process.
The TransAndino pipeline has a capacity of 47mbd per day and so should be able to handle about 87% of Putumayo’s current production. But the inability to protect the pipeline and the opening of export routes through Ecuador could leave it underutilized.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) held workshops and drills with municipalities, civil defense authorities, firefighters and health officials to implement and certify its contingency plan along the security-challenged Coveñas/Caño Limón Pipeline.
The week after President Juan Manuel Santos was reelected, ensuring continuity of the current strategy in the Farc and now ELN peace talks, security incidents near oil and gas infrastructure went down to 26 this week, below recent and long-term averages.
With President Juan Manuel Santos’ reelection an item of the recent past, the peace process rambles forward. Whether or not the new found pace and inclusion of the ELN guerrilla will hold is now our big question.
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