The Ministry of Mines and Energy announced a small increase in fuel prices for the month of September, while more pressure mounts from political sectors to drop prices.
The impact of attacks on oil infrastructure and community conflict has left daily oil production below the government’s targets, and financial entities, including the Finance Ministry (MinHacienda) and the Central Bank are warning on a new fiscal scenario as oil brings less to the State budget.
Puerto Gaitán becomes an unlikely supporter of the General Royalty System (SGR) while Casanare holds an OCAD to approve new royalty projects.
The era of easy discoveries of oil is over declares Colombia’s main business paper, and while offshore and unconventional resources could be the source of the next big find, they bring more challenges and needs more investment.
After weeks of very high guerrilla activity, incidents were up because of Armed Forces actions. The count went up to 40 although the trend line fell.
As part of its plan expand the gas transportation infrastructure available in Colombia, gas distributor TGI, recently acquired by the Energia de Bogota Group, will expand the capacity of its Cusiana-Vasconia pipeline by 20 million cubic feet.
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