(Ecopetrol, 19.Jan.2021) — Ecopetrol S.A. signed a Share Purchase Agreement with De Jong Capital LLC, through one of its subsidiaries as buyer, pursuant to which Ecopetrol sold its 50% ownership...
(Bloomberg, 6.Jan.2021) — Colombia’s government is reviewing plans to sell a stake in Interconexion Electrica SA that is attracting interest from publicly owned companies, according to people with direct knowledge...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Dec.2020) — Officials from Colombia’s National Hydrocarbon Agency (ANH) and Ministry of Mines commented on approval of assignment of a 50% interest held by state owned Ecopetrol...
(ANH, 24.Dec.2020) — The ANH approved the entry of Shell EP Offshore Ventures Limited, Colombian branch as operating partner of three Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production contracts in the deep waters...
(AFP, 23.Dec.2020) — Venezuela's vital oil industry is failing and the socialist government is feeling the pressure, and now the regime of President Nicolas Maduro is being accused of lashing...
(Sierra Club, 17.Dec.2020) — San Martín is full of oil men. This small, no-nonsense Colombian town in the department of Cesar, is hot, chaotic, and long accustomed to the presence...
(Argus, 16.Dec.2020) — Colombia's state-controlled Ecopetrol had been diversifying crude exports with a commitment to quality before the market tailspin of 2020. Now the company is preparing to boost crude...
(Ecopetrol, 14.Dec.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A.’s Board of Directors approved the 2021 organic investment plan for the Ecopetrol Group (GE) for an estimated amount between $3.5bn and $4bn. HIGHLIGHTS - The...
(Ecopetrol, 1.Dec.2020) — Ecopetrol reports that rating agency, Fitch Ratings, has affirmed the company’s credit rating at BBB- with a negative outlook and its standalone credit profile (without incorporating government...
(ANH, 1.Dec.2020) — Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency - ANH signed 4 new contracts as a conclusion of the third cycle of the Continuous Area Nomination Process, PPAA. Parex Resources and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Nov.2020) — The Obrera Oil Union (USO) requested an investigation into the causes of the fire that occurred at Ecopetrol’s refinery in Barrancabermeja, Santander, announced RCN RadioBucaramanga...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Nov.2020) — Presidential hopefully Gustavo Petro tops a recent opinion poll in Colombia, leading with 25.9% popularity in the Andean country. Colombians were surveyed by polling company...
(Frontera, 17.Nov.2020) — Frontera Energy Corporation, Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos S.A.S. and Oleoducto Bicentenario de Colombia S.A.S. separately announced they have reached an agreement for the joint filing...
(Reuters, 11.Nov.2020) — Colombia will hold a second bidding round to potentially grant contracts to companies interested in exploring non-conventional oil and gas deposits, using techniques like fracking, the National...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Nov.2020) — Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency will conduct a second round for the award of Special Research Project Contracts (CEPI by its Spanish acronym). “The purpose of...
(Frontera, 4.Nov.2020) — Frontera Energy Corporation reported financial and operational results for the third quarter ended 30 September 2020. All financial amounts in this news release are in United States...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Oct.2020) — Colombia’s Mining and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) officially started the investor selection process for the Pacific Gas Import Infrastructure project, which will encompass LNG storage,...
(Seeking Alpha, 28.Oct.2020) — Colombia’s Ecopetrol announced it 3Q:20 earnings results. The transcript from the earnings conference call on 28 October 2020 with analyst follows. Company Participants Felipe Bayón -...
(Ecopetrol, 28.Oct.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. announced the Ecopetrol Group's financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2020. Financial results were prepared in accordance with the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Oct.2020) — Colombia’s National Hydrocarbon Agency or ANH published a definitive list of 16 companies qualified for the third cycle of its Permanent Area Assignment Process (PPAA)....
(22.Oct.2020) — Frontera Energy Corporation will announce its third quarter results after the market closes on 4 November 2020 followed by a conference call with investors and analysts on 5...
(20.Oct.2020) — Bogotá-based Ecopetrol SA plans to release its financial and operating results for the third quarter 2020 on 27 October 2020 after the market close. Senior management will host...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Oct.2020) — Colombian households located in areas not connected to the national interconnected energy system will be offered installation of solar panels with resources from the national...
(Platts, 6.Oct.2020) — The first fracking in Colombia could come by the end of 2021, after companies obtain necessary environmental permits, energy minister Diego Mesa said Oct. 6 The Colombian...
(The Carlyle Group, 1.Oct.2020) — Occidental signed an agreement to sell its onshore assets in Colombia to The Carlyle Group for total consideration of approximately $825mn, with $700mn up front...
(Argus, 28.Sep.2020) — Colombia's oil industry is slowly shaking off the double market blows of 2020 while it prepares to debut unconventional pilot projects. Oil chamber executive president Francisco Lloreda...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Sep.2020) — Colombia oil and gas briefs on Ecopetrol’s capital expenditures for 2020 and the company’s plans to report financial results for the third quarter of 2020....
(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Sep.2020) — Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol announced launch of ‘Ronda Campos 2020’ with nine fields with aim to contribute to reactivation of the South American country’s...
Ecopetrol’ CEO Felipe Bayón said unconventionals were a very important option for Colombia since they allowed the country to boost its oil and gas reserves-to-production ratios while generating benefits for many regions such as employment, and goods and services. But he added: “In terms energy security, unconventionals are very important but they’re not the only option.”
(US State Department, 15.Sep.2020) — Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo will travel to Paramaribo, Suriname; Georgetown, Guyana; Boa Vista, Brazil; Bogota, Colombia; and Plano, Texas, September 17-20, 2020. This trip will highlight the United States’...
(Promigas, 14.Sep.2020) — The 2020 Natural Gas Sector Report presented by Promigas provides a concrete overview of Colombia in terms of reserves, investments, energy security, networks and transportation, as well...
(Reuters, 14.Sep.2020) — Colombian oil company Ecopetrol SA aims to drill a total 100 wells by end-2021 in the Permian Basin of West Texas as global oil prices recover, Chief...
(Ecopetrol, 14.Sep.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. will prepay its short-term obligations with local and international banks entered into in March and April 2020, in the form of trade finance instruments and...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Aug.2020) — Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro is doubling down on earning money through illicit means where sanctions have less of an impact while also doubling down on...
(Oilprice.com, 12.Aug.202) — The March 2020 oil price crash and COVID-19 pandemic has hit the global energy sector hard. In response oil companies are slashing capital spending, driving down costs...
(Petrobras, 11.Aug.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 27 July 2020, regarding the sale of its entire stake in the exploratory portion of the Tayrona Block, located...
(Ecopetrol, 4.Aug.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. announced today the Ecopetrol Group's financial results for the second quarter and the first half of 2020 and the update of the Business Plan 2020-2022....
(Ecopetrol, 3.Aug.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. announces rating agency Moody's kept the Company's long-term international rating at Baa3, with stable outlook. Moody's highlighted the Company's strength as a leading firm in...
(Ecopetrol, 29.Jul.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. announces that on 4 August 2020 before market opens, it will release its financial and operating results for the second quarter 2020, and its 2020-2022...
(Petrobras, 27.Jul.2020) — Petrobras informs that it has started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), regarding the sale of its entire stake in the exploratory portion of the Tayrona Block, located...
(Oilprice.com, 23.Jul.2020) — Sharply weaker oil prices, falling investment and dwindling oil production are weighing heavily on Colombia’s economic outlook. Last decade, the strife-torn Andean country bet its economic future...
(Fitch Ratings, 22.Jul.2020) — Colombia's sovereign metrics have deteriorated further since its April downgrade to 'BBB-', underpinning the range of downside risks reflected in the country's Negative Rating Outlook, says...
(Ecopetrol, 17.Jul.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. informs that the Board of Directors approved a new organic investment plan for the Ecopetrol Group (GE) for an estimated amount between $3 billion and...
(Shearman & Sterling, 15.Jul.2020) — The Colombian government has issued a new timetable for the tender with respect to the design, construction and operation under a build, own and operate,...
(TermoCandelaria, 14.Jul.2020) — TermoCandelaria Power Ltd, an electric power generation company in Colombia, which owns and operates a large portfolio of thermal power plants in Colombia, announced that it received...
(Oilprice.com, 8.Jul.2020) — The latest oil price collapse coupled with the considerable economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has battered Colombia’s fragile economy. As the strife-torn Latin American country emerged...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Jul.2020) — With the five expressions of interest and/or requests for the incorporation of areas presented by two companies, Colombia’s National Hydrocarbon Agency (ANH) will firmly begin...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Jun.2020) — Colombia’s president Ivan Duque announced his naming of Diego Mesa as the country’s new Mines and Energy Minister, replacing María Fernanda Suárez, who resigned for...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Jun.2020) — Colombia’s production of natural gas was 938.7 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) in May 2020, up 13.5% sequentially from 827 MMcf/d in April 2020,...
(Khiron, 24.Jun.2020) — Khiron Life Sciences Corp., a vertically integrated cannabis leader with core operations in Latin America and Europe, announces the completed installation of a state-of-the-art 2,600 panel solar...
(Reuters, 23.Jun.2020) — Foreign investment in Latin America risks “drying out” due to economic turmoil and fiscal instability sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially if Chinese-led commodity demand remains weak,...
(Reuters, 23.Jun.2020) — The fiscal fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and low oil prices could affect Colombia for several years, Richard Francis, director of sovereign ratings at ratings agency Fitch,...
(Petrobras, 12.Jun.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on 21 May 2020, announces the beginning of the binding phase related to the sale of 100% of the...
(Fitch Ratings, 1.Jun.2020) — Fitch Ratings views the agreement reached between crude oil transportation companies and producers in Colombia as credit neutral for Oleoducto Central S.A (Ocensa) (BBB-/Negative) and A.I....
(Reuters, 20.May.2020) — Colombia’s government could make an unprecedented intervention in oil pipeline tariffs, which private producers have criticized as too high, the president of the country’s National Hydrocarbons Agency...
(Motley Fool, 13.May.2020) — Executives with Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol conducted a first quarter of 2020 conference call with analyst. A full transcript of the call follows. Contents: Prepared...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 12.May.2020) — Fuel demand in Colombia has started to recover slightly while refinery loads at the Barrancabermeja are rising, according to comments from Ecopetrol President...
(Ecopetrol, 11.May.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. announced the Ecopetrol Group's financial results for the first quarter of 2020, prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) applicable in Colombia. The...
(Argus, 11.May.2020) — Colombia's state-controlled Ecopetrol is exploring options to expand storage capacity in response to oil market oversupply and slumping demand caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The company has...
(Reuters, 11.May.2020) — Colombia’s majority state-owned oil company, Ecopetrol, reported on Monday a 95% fall in first-quarter net profit, which came in at 133 billion pesos ($34.3 million), following a...
(GeoPark, 6.May.2020) — GEoPark Limited will report its consolidated financial results for the three-month period ended March 31, 2020 on Wednesday, May 13, 2020. In conjunction with the first quarter results...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 5.May.2020) — Four Colombian pipelines have been attached at least 25 times to date in 2020, according to data revealed by the country’s state oil...
(Ecopetrol, 30.Apr.2020) — It is the first link in Ecopetrol’s value chain. Its main objective is to explore, discover and appraise commercially viable hydrocarbon accumulations, seeking to ensure the reserve...
(Moody’s 24.Apr.2020) — Moody's Investors Service assigned a Baa3 rating to Ecopetrol S.A.'s proposed new global notes. The Baa3 rating on the proposed notes is based on the rating of...
(Ecopetrol, 22.Apr.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. informs the ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting, held on 7 March 2020, approved the earnings distribution proposal presented for their consideration, which establishes the distribution of...
(Ecopetrol, 20.Apr.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. announced filing of its annual report under Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the...
(Gran Tierra, 16.Apr.2020) — Gran Tierra Energy Inc. announced a business update regarding the Company's proactive measures taken to protect its financial strength in response to the large decrease in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 11.Apr.2020) — Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol was forced to halt work at its Barrancabermeja refinery due to the death of an employee due to...
(WoodMac, 9.Apr.2020) — Since OPEC+’s failure to agree on production restraint on 5-6 March, the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic have become far clearer, sparking a crisis in the oil...
(OPEC, 9.Apr.2020) — Delivered by HE Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, OPEC Secretary General, at the 9th (Extraordinary) OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting, 9 April 2020, via webinar. Excellencies, Over the course...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 7.Apr.2020) — Under the framework of World Health Day, the Villavicencio Municipal Mobility Secretariat continues with an initiative dubbed 'VillaBici' which provides alternative transportation options...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Apr.2020) — Noble Energy expects drilling offshore Colombia to take place in 2021 at water depths close to 2,600 meters. In Colombia, Noble operates the Colombia-3 and...
(Ecopetrol, 28.Mar.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. informs that the ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting, held on March 27, 2020, approved the earnings distribution proposal presented for their consideration, which establishes the distribution...
(Ecopetrol, 25.Mar.2020) — In accordance with the authorizations and recommendations provided by the Colombian Financial Superintendence and the Superintendence of Companies, the President of Ecopetrol S.A. (the "Company") is permitted...
(Reuters, 24.Mar.2020) — A price war between the world's oil powerhouses is leaving many producers in Latin American struggling to cover production costs, boosting chances of output cuts and investment...
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