Through the National Federation of Departments, Colombia’s governors have held an extraordinary meeting to align themselves and call on the government to release royalty funds assigned in the 2013-14 budget in their entirety.
The Farc attack in mid-April has eroded public support to its lowest point since the start of the peace process in November 2012, a Gallup poll has found.
The liberalization of the market and mass use of the domestic gas network, coupled with pricing decisions made on a political instead of technical or market basis is putting the country’s electrical energy supply at risk argues a newspaper column.
Company NewsBy now anyone with the most remote interest in the Colombian oil and gas industry must have heard the news. What follows are a number of perhaps irreverent reflections.
A potential plan from Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) to farm out its smaller fields to private operators, one of the potential new strategy points mentioned by the NOC’s president Juan Carlos Echeverry, already has the USO oil workers union sounding alarms.
The Tauramena municipality, where the first public referendum against oil production was held, has changed its strategy and filed the first request in Casanare for establishing an environmental protection zone while Ecopetrol announces projects to reduce CO2 emissions. These and other environmental stories in our periodic summary.
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