Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) has issued a counter-proposal ahead of negotiations with the USO for a new collective bargaining agreement, and the union has called it an attack on its rights and “historic struggle” with the NOC.
The ELN were active in the northeast but the Farc relatively well-behaved and incidents near areas of interest to the oil and gas industry were down again to 31, below recent and right at long-term averages.
The National Association of Financial Institutions (ANIF) sounds like the bankers association but it is in fact an economics think tank. Once every four years, it turns its quantitative and model building skills to looking at presidential elections.
The latest rounds of talks in Havana started on Monday and this will look at the victims of the conflict, while back in Colombia the election that will define the future of the peace process is now less than two weeks away.
Colombia’s Orinoquia, which includes the oil producing departments of Casanare and Meta, have been left unprotected against economic interests, in particular the hydrocarbons industry, since government views it as an blank slate for whatever activity makes more money, says a group of academics participating in a recent forum.
The governor of Meta, Alan Jara, met with the Minister of Transportation, Cecilia Alvarez Correa, directors from the National Highway Institute (Invías) and representatives from the National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) to define details of a CoP$5T (US$2.6B) highway project being advanced by the central and departmental governments. This and other reports involving Colombia’s roads in the local press.
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