Ecopetrol and Colombia’s security forces have agreed to coordinate efforts to fight oil theft, which allegedly cost the state-run oil company $936 million (COP3.6 trillion) since 2019. According to Ecopetrol,…
Colombia’s authorities seized assets of 17 businessmen who allegedly stole and exported $80 million worth of oil belonging to state-controlled oil company Ecopetrol. President Gustavo Petro said on Twitter that…
Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol said Tuesday that it would suspend its fracking operations. The company made the surprise announcement after Congress began debating a bill to ban the controversial…
Colombia’s incoming finance minister announced changes in state-run oil company Ecopetrol after the outgoing government tried to prevent the replacement of directors. The far-right government of outgoing President Ivan Duque…
The prosecution and paramilitary group AGC have been intimidating locals near oil fields of state-run company Ecopetrol in northeast Colombia after a series of guerrilla attacks. The Ombudsman last week…
A mortar attack disrupted a meeting between government officials, state-run oil company Ecopetrol and indigenous authorities in northeast Colombia on Thursday. President Ivan Duque and indigenous organization ONIC fiercely rejected…
Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol said Wednesday that it will begin fracking operations in the United States. Ecopetrol’s fracking operation will be carried out in a joint venture with US…
A Colombian judge on Friday requested the arrest and extradition of a US engineering executive for his alleged role in what the prosecution calls the “biggest corruption scandal in history.”…
The former CEO of state-run oil company Ecoptrol was called to trial on Thursday in what has been called possibly the biggest corruption scandal in Colombia’s history. Former Ecopetrol boss…