This week the discussion of the illegal drug trade, the third agenda point in the roundtable in Havana got off to the start, with the Farc arguing that the problem is not the coca crops, it’s the cocaine trade.
The Colombian Association of Truckers has staged a blockade in Casanare, demanding that Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) and Pacific Rubiales (TSX:PRE) favor local truckers over regional or foreign providers and pay a standby fee for waits incurred prior to loading.
Casanare has become the eighth department to receive a special investigative unit, called the Structure of Support (EDA), which will focus on criminal cases involving the oil industry and its infrastructure.
Javier Gutiérrez, president of Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) made a visit to the municipality in San Antero and told local press that the Bicentennial Pipeline (OBC) will be online in December, the latest change in the start of its operations, mainly due to security threats.
The commander of a local military unit, Cornol Juvenal Díaz says the 48th Front of the Farc is responsible for repeated attacks that have caused a significant amount of oil to be spilled into the ecosystem.
Hydrocarbons Colombia organized a debate on environmental management in the hydrocarbons industry between two Colombian heavyweights: environmentalist Juan Pablo Ruiz Soto (the only Colombian to have climbed Mount Everest) and Jose Francisco Arata, president of Colombia’s largest entirely shareholder-owned oil company, Pacific Rubiales.
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