Now Part 2 of our ongoing series written by Leopoldo Olavarría and the team at Norton Rose Fulbright on Agreement 2, the National Hydrocarbons Agency’s (ANH) rewrite of the rules for block assignment and contracting.
Colombia’s General Controller (GC) recently told the press that the country will lose its self-sufficiency in oil by 2023.
As usual, the union expressed its non-conformity with Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) management decisions, and said that the implementation of Decree 1668 of 2016 unleashed a social crisis in Sabana de Torres and Huila.
The relationship between communities and the oil industry is complicated in Colombia. Casanare is one of the main producing departments and several communal leaders met to analyze the current situation.
Security and Public OrderEven though ELN’s representatives said that dialogues in Quito are in no more than an “exploratory phase,” the government and the guerrilla announced the creation of a Fund for Peace Negotiations to distribute the International aid that has been received for Quito’s peace talks.
The National Environmental Licensing Authority (ANLA) participated in the first water monitoring workshop 2017-2018, organized by the Canadian Corporation and the Agri team Foundation. Plans were announced to strengthen the sector.