A new factory operated by a new Colombian company called Tayrona Steel Pipe will open in 2014 to supply the oil and gas sector with tubing produced in the Magdalena Department, near the Santa Marta port.
Folk music, a journalism award, new roads, natural gas distribution and more in this latest installment of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects advanced by oil producers, pipeline operators and the NOC Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC).
The National Consulting Center did a study of the image of local mayors and departmental governors and published their latest findings. Here is a look at how the political heads of oil producing regions – Meta and Casanare – fared.
Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) spoke to investors last week and one of the upbeat stories was about exploration, something the NOC often gets criticized for.
The debate in Colombia on oil production has centered mainly on the seismic impact on water sources, tankers in the road, spills and labor practices, but for the first time the controversy around Hydraulic Fracturing, or Fracking, in the United States has landed in the headlines of a major business newspaper.
This week the USO continued to call for the release of its Dario Cardenas Pachon, the VP of the Meta chapter, calling his arrest part of an orchestrated attempted by the government and oil companies to attack the organization.