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MinMinas on popular referendums

German Arce, MinMinas, talked about the sector situation and the boom of popular referendums in an interview with Semana.

Tuesday, July 18th, 2017
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The industry bets on CSR projects

Companies like Equion, Terpel, Gran Tierra Energy (TSX:GTE) and Geopark (NYSE: GPRK) announced some of their social investment projects in Colombia. The projects will benefit communities in the departments of Yopal, Casanare and Putumayo, among others. These and other Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) stories in our periodic summary.

Tuesday, July 18th, 2017
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Defenders and detractors of fracking in Barrancabermeja

For the first time, representatives of the Oil Workers Union (USO,) the Colombian Association of Petroleum Engineers (Acipet), the Technical Institute of Petroleum and Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) met in the “Unconventional resources: challenges for Colombia” forum, that took place in Barrancabermeja.

Monday, July 17th, 2017
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Lack of seismic data could affect next round

Carlos Mantilla Mc Cormick, former President of the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) spoke about the lack of seismic information and its consequences in the next round.

Monday, July 17th, 2017
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Water yes, oil as well

Professor Freddy Humberto Escobar gave a talk at Javeriana University about the debate between oil and water.

Monday, July 17th, 2017
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Only the ELN left

Only the ELN left

The trend in security incidents near oil or gas infrastructure continued to slide in June 2017. The only recorded guerrilla-initiated events were either attributed to the ELN directly or took place in traditional ELN territory.

Monday, July 17th, 2017
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