Colombia

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on July 22 broke diplomatic relations with Colombia after Bogotá accused his government of harbouring Colombian rebel fighters, escalating a diplomatic... 2010-07-23

British oil major BP is pressing ahead with its investment campaign in Colombia in spite of the massive looming clean-up bill for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Colombia's national oil company Empresa Colombiana de Petróleos (Ecopetrol) is looking to acquire assets in Brazil and the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) in its effort to boost output from... 2010-04-08

Brazil's state-run Petrobras will invest US$400mn in Colombia between 2009 and 2013, an official from the company told Colombian business daily Portafolio on March 18.

Chilean explorer GeoPark Holdings announced on March 12 that it has entered into a strategic partnership with South Korea's LG International (LGI) to acquire and develop upstream... 2010-03-15

Newly-formed Savia Perú, a joint venture (JV) between Colombian national oil company Ecopetrol and Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC), has announced that intends to increase its... 2010-02-11

The director of Colombia's Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH), Armando Zamora, has said that Colombia could increase its proven oil reserves to over 6bn barrels by 2020 and could... 2010-02-04

Canadian explorer Pacific Rubiales has said that it is targeting gross production of 225,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) in 2010 from the three sites it is developing... 2009-12-17

Colombian state energy company Ecopetrol is raising its budget for next year by 11% to US$6.9bn, with over half of the figure going towards achieving its ambitious production targets.

Colombia's state-controlled energy company Ecopetrol approved a US$3.8bn expansion of its Cartagena refinery on October 22. When completed in H113, the project will more than double... 2009-10-26