The Governor of the Meta Department Alan Jara told local press that the department, along with other oil producing regions, have lost autonomy under the new royalty system and are not benefiting from the industry’s activities.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) topped the rankings of the most admired company by opinion leaders in an annual Opinion Panel survey. Meanwhile, a business publication speculates as to how much each share of the NOC will pay at the end of 2013.
GasThe first round of bilateral negotiations between natural gas producers and their clients and supply chain partners has come to a close, leaving the price at US$3.8 per million BTU, a US$2 drop from the existing price from the La Guajira field.
The vice president of the USO’s Meta chapter, Dario Cardenas Pachon, was arrested on November 2 on a warrant connected to alleged crimes during protests, and the union says that its part of a wide reaching plot between oil companies and public services against its activities.
The National Registry has set a December 15th date for a public referendum in the Tauramena municipality to accept or reject oil production in parts of the community. The authority also confirmed the exact wording of the questions, which links the issue to local water issues.
Incidents near areas of interest to the oil and gas industry were back down this week to 29 below recent and long-term averages. Non-Armed Forces incidents were slightly above average at 17%. This is our indicator of increased guerrilla-initiated activity. Despite this, our 4-week Moving Average incident count was up to 33.5 but the 52 week average was down but essentially unchanged at 34.0 incidents per week.
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