Cerro Matoso, the Córdoba nickel producer, says reduced gas deliveries from Canacol Energy have forced it to run at about half capacity since early August, costing it roughly 2,400 tons of nickel output.
The SPEC LNG terminal in Cartagena is set to add 58 mmcfd of regasification capacity within days, taking it to 533 mmcfd. That would be the country’s only LNG import gateway running at a higher ceiling just as demand pressure builds.
Ecopetrol has declared void the offers it received to import LNG on five-year terms, saying they did not meet minimum commercial conditions, and says it will strengthen domestic gas output and accelerate Sirius.
Colombia’s vice minister of energy, Armando Cuello, has resigned, and press reports say his next stop is Ecopetrol’s gas business.
The new head of Barranquilla’s chamber of commerce has put offshore oil and gas on his list of Caribbean resources to be explored and developed, though he named no block, volume or timeline.
Last week, Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella signed Directive 06, by which his government hopes to expedite the prior consultation process especially for high-priority energy projects like Sirius. Here we go deeper into the detail. Somehow, this all sounds terribly familiar.
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