As the pre-negotiations with the ELN stumble on certain items (like the location of the talks), the guerrilla have stepped up the violence to try to weaken the government’s resolve.
The capital of the Atlantico Department, Barranquilla is looking to position itself as the logistics hub for offshore hydrocarbons activity in Colombia’s Caribbean waters.
With “intelligent austerity” governments around the world are looking for the best way to adjust to the oil price levels.
Editor’s Note: Warren Levy is familiar to just about everyone in the Colombian, and indeed Latin American, industry which he has been around for over 20 years.
This week’s graph shows rather dramatically why gas is attracting great interest in Colombia: since 4Q14, gas netbacks have been higher than oil netbacks.
The USO celebrated its 93rd birthday on February 10th and said that its past has been marked by defending Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC), and also called the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) a failure which should be shuttered.