Oil producer Equion says that a strike of workers expanding its Early Production Facilities (EPF) at its Floreña well could mean losing 3,000 barrels of oil a day from daily production next year if not resolved.
A national strike led primarily by agro-workers has left around 16 highways with blockades and closed to traffic. Other sectors, such as truckers and health workers, joined the strike, which is set to continue indefinitely.
The average royalty rate in Colombia is 16% but the graph shows considerable variation between the leading producers.
Colombia’s labor minister Rafael Pardo Rueda met with a delegation of political and social leaders from Casanare to discuss the trouble plagued labor relationship between the local community and oil companies.
The USO held another “ethical judgment” session and called on Pacific Rubiales Energy to be expelled from Colombia for what it says are systematic violations of the right to freely form a union and said that it would be setting up an operational commission to specifically monitor its actions.
Following an early August resolution to restrict heavy trucks on Casanare roadways during weekends and holidays, the department’s secretary of public works Wilson Arenas has said in order to consider lifting the restrictions, oil producers must implement a safety protocol.
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