Santos government and the ELN concluded their sixth cycle of negotiations, without achieving the bilateral ceasefire that would guarantee the viability of the process.
Colombia is looking for alternatives to improve its production and reserves metrics and the Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technique is one of the main strategies to achieve it. Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) is implementing EOR in its fields with good results.
The union quoted Sentence 796 of 2014, among others, to defend its right to ‘defend their rights’.
This week we skip our ‘Last 8 years’ qualitative feature in favor of a guest contribution but we continue the series in our quantitative analysis column. Last week we looked at turnover in key policy positions. If policy instability put off investors, we would expect it to show up in investment and exploration statistics, which is what we look at here.
As they were going out the door, the ANH staff obviously got worried about those nasty ‘incompletes’ on the agency’s ToDo list. As we have complained many times, one of the most significant open items is – or was – the continuous assignment process, now officially dubbed the “Permanent Competitive Procedure”. Leopoldo Olavarria and his team at Norton Rose Fulbright have brought us this overview and commentary on the new procedures.
The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinMinas) announced fuel prices for August this year.
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