Bottom Line: MinMinas “propaganda” to encourage vehicle conversion to gas.
Bottom Line: The changes are logical, permitting a company to take advantage of conventional opportunities discovered in a unconventional block and vice versa, obviously with some adjustments in the case where the cheaper and less stringent unconventional blocks.
Bottom Line: Expressions of outrage over the killing of five Ecopetrol contractors at the hands of the Farc.
Bottom Line: The indigenous community consultation phase for the new Mining Code will start next week.
Bottom Line: Venezuela proposes maintaining prices between US$80 and US$120/barrel. Colombia agrees. The question of course is whether the price can be controlled in the face of demand-side uncertainty.
July 4, 2012 The Colombian press has widely reported the death of five Ecopetrol maintenance sub-contractors in a bombing.