Union and community members across the country march to protect water resources, meanwhile Ecopetrol reminds locals not to eat turtle and iguana meat during Easter week. These and other environmental stories in our periodic wrap up.
Colombia’s corporate regulator (Supersociedades) has created an “elite group” of experts to deal with a growing number of bankruptcies and company restructuring due to the oil price crisis, in the first quarter of the year the company registered two bankruptcies and 12 restructuring of service firms.
The new National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) president Mauricio de la Mora met with the president of the Chamber of Oil Goods and Services (Campetrol) Rubén Darío Lizarralde, to discuss a joint strategy to strengthen the oil sector.
Javier Gutierrez has officially stepped aside as the president of Ecopetrol, and in a last interview commented on the “not so low” tax rates paid by the industry and the structural situation which has pushed oil prices down.
The USO has continued to denounce the alleged firing of Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) worker USO Vice President Edwin Palma when he published information on social media denouncing the high salaries of Ecopetrol management.
The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinMinas) says that gasoline prices will stay at current levels while diesel experiences a small decrease, blaming factors such as a high price of ethanol and taking noticeable shift in tone since last month’s reduction.
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