Last week the United Nations mission of environmental experts published its preliminary report on the La Lizama well, giving the ‘scandal’ another mediatic bump. This may be the last such flurry for a while, but the industry will be paying the consequences for some time.
The government has been working on a bill to regulate prior consultations in the country. German Arce, Minister of Mines and Energy (MinMinas) spoke about the progress in this important project for the industry and the country.
Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM) and Canada’s investment fund, Brookfield, are competing for Gas Natural; a firm that holds more than 35% of the national gas distribution in Colombia. How would each firm change if winning the tender?
The union spoke about Ecopetrol’s (NYSE: EC) alleged debt with Barrancabermeja, which according to them, has been accumulating since 2014.
Recently the ACP announced its long-term price forecasts out to 2028. They also compared their numbers to other, publicly-available projections. We provide our own version of the comparison graph, translate some of the ACP’s commentary and give some of our own.
As I told you last time, we are preparing a book so I needed to reread all our weekly summaries about the FARC peace process. It was interesting how momentum had ebbed and flowed during the nearly five years of the process. In this final installment, I focus on that momentum and the important turning points.
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