Oil theft has soared in Colombia, partially fueled by increased coca cultivation, leading to a scandal involving Ecopetrol, the national oil company. The oil stolen is often converted into a ...

The Activity Relevant National Standards Cross-Curricular Activities Ties to Literature The Activity The instability caused by Colombia's bloody civil war and violent drug trade has ...

Colombia's proven oil and natural gas reserves can last only around seven more years at the current extraction rate. El Niño weather phenomenon threatens Colombia's reliance on hydroelectric ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian police have seized property and bank accounts worth 1.3 trillion pesos ($329 million), proceeds from the sale and export of stolen crude oil, officials said on Thursday.

A remote-controlled motorcycle bomb has killed 10 people and injured 48 others early in Colombia. The bomb exploded about 4am (11am UK time) as revellers were leaving bars and nightclubs in the ...

Tribesmen bombed Yemen's main oil pipeline in the central Maarib province yesterday, a government official said, the fourth attack on the pipeline in a month. The blast, which stopped oil flows to ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN)-- Nigeria's main militant group said Friday it destroyed another oil pipeline owned and operated by a foreign company in the Niger Delta region. It is the third reported ...

Colombia’s output is expected to reach at least 1.2 million barrels a day by the end of 2012, one oil company official said which is nearly double the average daily production reached last year.

Production is 7% higher than a year ago and double in the last seven years Colombia announced that it produced an average of 1.01 million barrels of oil per day in January, marking the first time ...

Surging petroleum theft is weighing on Colombia’s beaten-down oil industry, which is beset by geopolitical headwinds on all sides. While attacks on energy infrastructure in the strife-torn ...