Industry and community representatives complain about how poor road quality in Caquetá affects business, meanwhile a special hearing will be held to decide if Pacific E&P (TSX:PRE) is responsible for damage on the Corocoro-Cravo Norte highway. These and other stories in our periodic roundup of road-related issues.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) published a look a back on the 2,572 attacks on its oil infrastructure between 1986 and 2015 by the guerrilla, and gave a small glimpse into some of its impact.
A study from an energy consultancy found that the Colombian thermoelectric sector only has 34% of the natural gas it needs to purchase to produce the country’s energy during the El Niño weather phenomenon.
“This government does not believe in the agriculture sector as a motor of development” said that executive president of the Colombian Association of Oil Goods and Services (Campetrol) Rubén Darío Lizarralde, an area where the association is looking to lessen the economic dependence on the oil industry.
The USO and Mansarovar Energy have reached a tentative agreement, thanks to the intervention of the Ministry of Labor and ended an ongoing strike.
Several months ago, I published an opinion piece saying that the reorganization of Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) in the middle part of the last decade did not go far enough and it should be broken up into several distinct businesses.