A recent investigation contracted by the Colombian Attorney General Eduardo Montealegre and carried out by political analyst and journalist Natalia Springer traced the environmental damage which from ELN backed oil infrastructure attacks, particularly on the Coveñas/Caño Limon (CCL) pipeline.
Ecopetrol has unveiled a number of projects being carried out jointly with the state training agency Sena, while Hocol detailed its social investments and local goods and services spending in Meta and surrounding areas. These and other stories in our periodic roundup of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects.
While Caribbean offshore blocks have received attention and been the site of recent discoveries, Pacific blocks have failed to gain the same interest and results. Now the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) is looking to hold a competitive process in 2016 to find operators.
The National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) is preparing another set of regulatory changes, Agreement 05, which builds on past adjustments designed to make the sector more flexible in the new price scenario. This implements the change to directly assign blocks and could also include even more benefits for offshore contracts.
Led by the Casanare Chamber of Commerce (CCC), 12 business leaders from the local Oil & Gas Services Cluster participated in a trade mission to the United States to explore new markets and make business ties in hopes of stimulating their business.
In early 2013, Naturgas’ Eduardo Pizano and the ANDI’s then VP of Mining, Oil and Energy, Santiago Angel Urdinola staged a very public battle over whether Colombia had or did not have sufficient gas reserves to last into the next decade.