The government might still be holding onto expectations that daily oil production in Colombia from 2014-2024 will average 1.062mmbd, but the Colombian Petroleum Association (ACP) already has scaled down its expectations to a more conservative figure.
There was another tanker convoy burning this week and trends continued upward although incidents, in fact, went down to 43, still well above recent and long-term averages.
On August 23 the extension of the direct negotiation phase of collective bargaining talks between Ecopetrol and the USO comes to a close, and the union is promising strikes before the matter goes to a tribunal for resolution.
In one of his first interviews as the new Minister of Mines and Energy, Tomás González says that in order for communities to feel a “legitimate” benefit from oil activities near their homes, they must see the impact of royalties.
Some 56 villages in the Putumayo corridor from Puerto Vega-Teteyé have been protesting a plan to expand drilling in the area, arguing that they do not want oil infrastructure that will become a target of the Farc near their communities.
The head of the Farc, Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri, alias ‘Timochenko’ says that he does not anticipate an agreement in 2014, and maybe not in 2015, while negotiators in Havana prepare to start receiving groups of victims.
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