This is what the Colombian Association of Petroleum Engineers (Acipet) thinks about the Bill of Law that aims to eliminate the professional registration certificate from most professions in the country.
The Minister of Energy (MinEnergia), Diego Mesa, spoke about the role of the mining-energy sector in Colombia’s economic reactivation process.
Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) announced a successful work completion on its Prime G plant in the Barrancabermeja Refinery.
The director of the National Environmental Licensing Agency (ANLA), Rodrigo Suárez, spoke about the entity’s response times to environmental requests.
The NOC announced positive results from its most recent social projects, aimed at helping vulnerable families in Barrancabermeja and Barranquilla, among others. These and other Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) stories in our periodic summary.
At least that is my – perhaps naïve – hope. The ACIPET’s plea to not sell even 8% of Ecopetrol and recent events at Pemex and PDVSA have me thinking again about politicians’ love of state-owned-enterprises (SOEs) at least in some countries like Colombia.