Campetrol president Rubén Darío Lizarralde Montoya met with MinMinas Tomás González to talk about the sector and his message emphasized the need to keep exploring, both drilling and shooting seismic.
Press reports appeared that Mauricio de la Mora had been appointed the new head of the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH). But neither the ANH nor MinMinas have said anything officially.
While known as a producer of gas, La Guajira in northeastern Colombia has characteristics that led researchers at the National University to believe that it could hold an extension of the crude deposits found in the Middle Magdalena Valley.
Canacol Energy (TSX:CNE) highlighted its growing success with gas resources in Colombia in its fourth quarter 2014 (2QFY2015) results. However the firm was still hit by the devaluation of the Colombian peso and drop in the price of oil, and posted a US$46M net loss. We want to focus on the larger issue of what we can see in Canacol’s results that has implications for the broader industry
The president of the Colombian Petroleum Association Francisco José Lloreda started a round of producing regions with a visit to Yopal, Casanare, where he warned that that the government must take greater measures to address the impact of falling oil prices and the recent tax reform.
The National Association of Financial Institutions (ANIF) president Sergio Clavijo sounded the alarms and called for greater diversification of the economy.