(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...
(Ecopetrol, 30.Apr.2020) — The fourth link in Ecopetrol’s value chain is the refining and petrochemical activity, which originates from the Barrancabermeja and Cartagena refineries. It is there where the crude...
(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...
(Milbank, 1.May.2020) — Milbank LLP represented the underwriters, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Scotia Capital, in connection with the $2bn SEC-registered offering of notes due 2030 by Ecopetrol, Colombia’s state-owned...
(Milbank, 1.May.2020) — Milbank LLP represented the underwriters, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Scotia Capital, in connection with the $2 billion SEC-registered offering of notes due 2030 by Ecopetrol, Colombia’s...
(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...
(Frontera, 23.Mar.2020) — Frontera Energy Corporation announced responses to the lower oil price environment caused by excess global supply and the COVID-19 pandemic, which includes a reduction in the 2020...
(Reuters, 20.Mar.2020) — Spot sales of Latin America's heavy crudes mostly dried up this week amid a demand contraction and steep slump in oil prices that left some heavy grades...
(Ecopetrol, 17.Mar.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. informs that in an extraordinary session held on March 16, its Board of Directors adopted a set of actions to address the challenging market conditions,...
(ANH, 12.Mar.2020) — Colombia’s National Hydrocarbon Agency or ANH announced appointment of Armando Zamora Reyes as its new president, replacing Luis Miguel Morelli. Zamora, a mechanical engineer and specialist in...
(Ecopetrol, 12.Mar.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. published the release from its subordinate Bioenergy S.A.S, that together with Bioenergy Zona Franca S.A.S., were admitted in the reorganization process by the Superintendence of...
(Gran Tierra, 12.Mar.2020) — Gran Tierra Energy Inc. announced revisions to its 2020 capital program in response to recent commodity price volatility. All dollar amounts are in United States ("U.S.")...
(Petrobras, 6.Mar.2020) — Petrobras has started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), referring to the sale of its fuel and lubricant distribution and marketing businesses in Colombia. This project aims to...
(Frontera, 5.Mar.2020) — Frontera Energy Corporation announced that its Board of Directors has declared a dividend of C$0.205 per common share, which will be paid on or about April 16,...
(Frontera, 5.Mar.2020) — Frontera Energy Corporation released its Consolidated Financial Statements, Management Discussion and Analysis ("MD&A"), Annual Information Form ("AIF") and Form 51-101 F1 - Statement of Reserves Data and...
(Promigas, 2.Mar.2020) — Promigas has commissioned an infrastructure expansion project in order to transport natural gas from new deposits in the south of the Caribbean region. This expansion - as...
(Promigas, 2.Mar.2020) — Because of the drought that has been affecting Colombia, reservoir levels have fallen this week to 44% of capacity, which represents a useful hydroelectric generation volume of...
(Reuters, 2.Mar.2020) — Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol SA placed restrictions on business travel to all Asian and European countries on Monday in response to the coronavirus outbreak, its chief...
(Ecopetrol, 25.Feb.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. announced the Business Group's 2019 fourth quarter and full-year financial results, prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) applicable in Colombia. he figures...
(Renewables Now, 20.Feb.2020) — Colombian oil company Ecopetrol SA will develop a 50-MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) park in the department of Meta. Located on a 46-hectare (113.6 acres) area in...
(Reuters, 20.Feb.2020) — Colombia's state-owned oil company Ecopetrol said an independent assessment found its proven reserves of oil and gas had increased 9.6% at the end of last year, equivalent...
(Frontera, 18.Feb.2020) — Frontera Energy Corporation said Fourth quarter and full year 2019 results are expected to be released after market on Thursday, March 5, 2020 followed by a conference...
(Ecopetrol, 18.Feb.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. announces that on February 25, 2020 after market close, it will release its financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and full year 2019,...
(Frontera, 18.Feb.2020) — Frontera Energy Corporation announced the results of its annual independent reserves assessment and provided notice of fourth quarter and full year 2019 financial results and conference call....
(Ecopetrol, 7.Feb.2020) — Ecopetrol S.A. and Shell, through its subsidiary Shell EP Offshore Ventures Limited, signed an agreement whereby Shell will acquire a 50% stake in Fuerte Sur, Purple Angel...
(Frontera, 6.Feb.2020) — Frontera Energy Corporation provided an exploration update in relation to prospects in Colombia in the Lower Magdalena Valley, including its exploration joint venture with Parex Resources Inc....
(Ecopetrol, 30.Jan.2020) — Ecopetrol has adhered to the Bank World-let initiative called "Zero Routine Flaring by 2030", whose goal is to eliminate the routine flaring of gas in the oil...
(Reuters, 27.Jan.2020) — Investment in Colombia’s oil industry is set to grow by 23% in 2020, the private oil producers association said on Monday, although production will be effectively flat,...
(Argus, 27.Jan.2020) — Investment in exploration and production in Colombia will grow by an estimated 23pc to $4.97bn in 2020, but crude production will remain flat at around 890,000 b/d...
(Argus, 20.Jan.2020) — The US government is hoping a high-profile international tour by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido will re-inject momentum into its protracted campaign to unseat President Nicolas Maduro....
(GeoPark, 16.Jan.2020) — GeoPark Limited closed the previously announced acquisition of Amerisur Resources Plc. GeoPark acquired the entire issued share capital of Amerisur for a total cash consideration of approximately...
(Reuters, 16.Jan.2020) — Colombia’s environment minister said on Thursday the Andean country will increase monitoring of its jungles and forests to fight deforestation and protect the species that call these...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 11.Jan.2020) — Illegal valves were again detected stealing crude oil from the Caño Limón-Coveñas oil pipeline and subsequently produced an oil spill in Caño Veinte...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 10.Jan.2020) — Bogotá Energy Group (GEB) was awarded 0.01% of the shares of Electro Dunas S.A.A. (EDSAA) by the Lima Stock Exchange in Peru as...