Incidents near areas of interest to the oil and gas industry were up to 37, below recent but still above long-term averages. Non-Armed-Forces-reported incidents were above average both in percentage and absolute terms. This is our indicator of increased guerrilla-initiated activity. Our 4-week Moving Average incident count was down at 40.3 and the 52 week average was up slightly at 31.1 incidents per week.
Peru’s NOC Petroperú has announced it will float 49% of its shares to public markets, opening the state run firm to private capital. What lessons are in this for Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC)?
The Colombian Minister of Mines and Energy, Amylkar Acosta, heralded an optimistic view for 2014, saying that not only are investors continuing to believe in Colombia’s potential, but also a potential record of exploratory wells, some 240, will be drilled this year.
With few changes to the deadlocked peace talks in Havana, the ongoing conflict in departments like Arauca overshadowed any bits of progress, despite an assurance from President Juan Manuel Santos that the talks are now at a mature state.
ProductionE&P contracts have been available since the establishment of the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH). They were designed to attract other investors / E&P companies to increase reserves and production.
Investments to meet emissions standards set by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable development have amounted to a CoP52B (US$26.4M) investment into Ecopetrol’s refinery business, only considering the Barrancabermeja Refinery.