The Villavicencio Chamber of Commerce (CCV) will create a mechanism to resolve payment disputes between local suppliers and Ecopetrol contractors and monitor payments from the oil producer to its direct contractors.
Government and Farc negotiators resumed talks in Havana this week, as the focus now moves past the land reform deal into new fronts, with a constant hum of politics and controversy as a backdrop along with constant positioning ahead of next year’s elections.
The total value of fuel and products derived from extraction in Colombia dropped 12% in the first quarter of 2013 to US$12.52B from US$14.23B a year ago, pushing Colombian exports as a whole to drop 7.3% in that period.
Road blockades in the communities of Cumaral, Acacías, Puerto Lópex and Villavicencio have blocked truck routes used to transport crude with protestors calling for the government to remove the heavy vehicles passing through the area.
Canacol Energy says it has started drilling an exploration well as part of its Oso Pardo I expedition project carried out jointly with ConocoPhillips.
Attacks on Ecopetrol’s pipeline infrastructure have nearly doubled in 2013 and as of the end of May, the count had reached 90, a radio report quoted an Ecopetrol executive as saying.
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