A bomb placed on Saturday by Colombia’s last standing Marxist-inspired rebel group the ELN has halted the flow of crude oil along the South American country’s second largest oil pipeline,…
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Crude production at Colombia’s La Cira-Infantas oilfield has fallen more than 80 percent during the last week, state-run oil company Ecopetrol said on Wednesday, due to protests by local residents…
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More than a year after Colombia’s biggest corruption scandal ever broke, the prosecution indicted eight former executives of disgraced state oil refinery Reficar on corruption charges. Curiously, according to Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto…
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Colombia’s fiscal authority announced Tuesday that it will investigate oil refinery Reficar, center of the biggest corruption ignominy in the country’s history. Comptroller General Edgardo Maya declared that several contracts that exceeded USD $1…
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Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol will begin off-shore oil exploration in the Caribbean for the first time in its history, the government announced. The announcement of the National Hydrocarbon Agency came…
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In a historic move, Colombia’s congress lifted the immunity and suspended a sitting constitutional court judge who had become embroiled in a bribery scandal. Never since Colombia’s 1991 constitution came into force did…
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One man was shot by the military when thousands of locals from towns across the south of Colombia took to the streets on Monday claiming that fracking activities by foreign and local…
An attack by alleged ELN guerrillas on one of Colombia’s main oil pipelines, the Caño Limon-Coveñas, has contaminated the drinking water of some 1,000 people living near the pipeline. Colombia’s state oil…
A rural community along Colombia’s border with Venezuela protested the beginning of oil exploration efforts, saying it puts the area’s already scarce water resources at risk. The protesters organized outside the…
Unless major investments are made, Colombia will run out of oil within six years, warned the president of Colombia’s oil industry association ACP. On Wednesday, association leader Francisco Lloreda said the country will…