The president of the Colombian Natural Gas Association Eduardo Pizano says that there must be an emphasis on finding new gas to meet the demand, and that without these discoveries it will be impossible to justify more distribution infrastructure.
A national paper has published a report pointing out the importance of creating stimulus measures to invest in secondary recovery, which would allow vital reserve growth from Colombia’s existing fields.
Oil company shareholders are not having a good year, hurt by continuing low oil prices. However Parex (TSX:PXT) 3Q15 results should make its investors happier than most.
ONGC Videsh (OVL), the subsidiary for foreign investments of Indian NOC ONGC, is executing an investment of more than US$72M in a first phase of exploration in three offshore blocks in the Colombian Caribbean.
Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) Cartagena Refinery (Reficar) has shown recent, serious advances, but there is little good news from another problematic refinery construction, this one an ethanol plant from the NOC’s biofuels subsidiary, Bioenergy. And critics ask whether the mistakes continue.
Led by the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) president Mauricio de la Mora and Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) president Juan Carlos Echeverry, Colombia was home to the II World Forum of Enhanced Recovery, which included 25 international experts visiting to detail their experiences in the technology.
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