Colombian press speculates that President Juan Manuel Santos could designate a new Minister of Mines and Energy (MinMinas) this week. But the process to find a replacement to Tomás González in the midst of an energy supply crisis and constant investigations has not proven easy.
Traditionally, Colombians have thought of their natural gas as coming from La Guajira. Even when we started HCC in 2012, La Guajira represented 51% of gas production. But by 4Q15, that figure had dropped to 31%. Casanare is the new leader.
Representatives of the government and the ELN guerrilla have officially announced a start to talks after the latest round of informal discussions which took place in Caracas. The parties agreed to a six point agenda which will be similar to talks with the Farc, but move at its own pace and separately.
GasGas production has been above its 12-month moving average for at least four months and so what had been a strong decline in the trend-line has moderated. Could we be seeing the impact of new discoveries by Canacol (TSX:CNE) and greater production in Casanare?
The national government has set the limits of eight páramos, or high mountain tundra, to protect water sources which it says supply more than three million people. The protective order affects a total of 100,000 hectares of land in different parts of the country. This and other environmental stories in our periodic roundup.
A group of politicians in Meta have demanded explanations on the status of a planned refinery in Meta and how CoP$17B (US$5.6M) have been spent on the refinery, which still has not started the construction phase.
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