Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday called on the Farc to keep their word and stick to the agreed agenda in the peace negotiations in Havana, discarding any notion that he would negotiate on the new terms.
Counts were down slightly to 29 below recent and long-term averages. This was a normal week for non-armed forces reported i.e. guerrilla-initiated incidents. Our 4-week Moving Average incident count was down to 32.3 incidents but the 52 week average was up slightly again to 39.1 incidents per week.
In the absence of an agreement between mining firms Drummond and Cerrejón over methane gas and coal reserves in La Guajira, the government has said it will step in and impose a decision to break the ongoing deadlock over how to extract the resources which share the same block.
Colombia’s minister of mines and energy Federico Renjifo told a renewable energy forum that the government is willing and needs to develop mechanisms to spur a greater use of clean and renewable energies in its energy grid.
Every quarter Ecopetrol helpfully publishes the distribution of its crude oil exports. Other producers would have different profiles but considering the NOC’s size both in terms of production and commercialization, this is a good indicator of the country as a whole.
The Bicentennial Pipeline unveiled a community center for events and meetings in a village of Nunchia which it says will benefit more than 350 people in the community and is one of seven the company is delivering for community use.