Even with its environmental licenses approved and delivered, Hocol is facing stiff resistance from communities in La Macarena, Meta which accuse the firm of downplaying its project and putting water resources at risk.
Government authorities inaugurated Colombia’s first regasification plant, El Cayao, in Cartagena, which is designed to be the backup for Colombia’s natural gas supply.
The tax reform is poised to be the dominant issue in this month as 2016, and the congressional session, winds to a halt. The oil industry has submitted its wish list, but the financial shortfalls of the government’s budget makes any landmark gains look unlikely.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) 3Q16 Line of Business (LoB) results show that Refining is once again profitability challenged while E&P is getting better all the time.
Our count of security incidents near oil and gas infrastructure went up last month, about equally divided between those we ascribe to the guerrilla and those initiated to the Armed Forces.
The USO said that its efforts to prevent the sale of Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) non-essential fields were responsible for the NOC only awarding six of a planned 30 fields in its recent auction.
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