In the run up to the 2014 Round auctions in late July, the head of the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), Javier Betancourt, and the Vice-minister of Mines and Energy, Orlando Cabrales, have been talking to the press.
The General Manager of Llanopetrol, Ricardo Rodríguez Henao, sees a rapid timetable for the Meta micro-refinery project.
Despite a self-imposed truce by the Farc in the run-up to the second round of the Colombian presidential elections, security incidents near oil and gas infrastructure went up to 34 this week, at recent but just above long-term averages.
The Colombian climate institute predicts 8 months of drought and NIMBY affects Pore, Casanare in our roundup of stories related to the environment and the hydrocarbons industry.
True, he is not going to give any more money to producing regions but they will be able to spend direct royalty money as they please, without having to go through the OCAD approval process.
After a brutal campaign that left many Colombians thinking about voting for ‘none-of-the-above’, President Juan Manuel Santos was reelected meaning we expect continuity in the current government’s policies.