Private companies and Ecopetrol have poured money into pipeline construction projects in the last several years to increase capacity, improve distribution throughout the country and decrease transport by road. A mountainous geography and substandard road networks make shipping by truck an expensive and slow proposition. However, many oil companies working in Colombia...
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Articles & Analysis | New links should help to dramatically increase competitiveness from The Report: Colombia 2014
Chapter | Energy & Utilities from The Report: Colombia 2014
In the past 10 years, Colombia has emerged as one of Latin America’s leading hydrocarbons producers. With just over 1m barrels per day of production in 2013, Colombia trailed only Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil in the region. On a relative basis, natural gas production, at 1.2bn cu feet per day, is more modest, but has also grown every year but one since 2003. With one of the lowest reserves-to-...
Despite instability associated with the global mining and hydrocarbons sectors, Colombia displays stable economic growth amidst a regional slowdown, in large part a result of economic liberalisation, free trade agreements and entry to a variety of trade blocs. After recording 6.6% growth in 2011 and 4% in 2012, Colombia saw a slowdown in the first half of 2013, but the economy regained momentum by the end of the year.
Interviews & Viewpoints | Greg Rickford, Canadian Minister of Natural Resources, on developing ties between Malaysia and Canada from The Report: Malaysia 2014
Canada and Malaysia share more than half a century of friendship. It is a friendship that started in 1957 – the year Malaysia became independent and the year Canada became one of the first countries in the world to recognise Malaysian independence. In that same year, John Diefenbaker was the first Canadian Prime Minister to visit Malaysia....
Articles & Analysis | Water works: Fortifying and integrating for continued production from The Report: Malaysia 2014
The lifeblood of agricultural and industrial development, clean and reliable water resources remain as important today to the development of Malaysia as when Kuala Lumpur was originally founded at the confluence of the Kelang and Gombak Rivers.
Articles & Analysis | Changes on track: Implementing sustainability measures in energy production from The Report: Malaysia 2014
While sustained economic expansion has created unprecedented opportunities for many Malaysians and given rise to more value-added industries, the energy infrastructure underpinning this growth is under increasing stress. To address the escalating challenge and stem mounting subsidy payments, the government and various stakeholders are...