In the midst of the controversy because the Vice Minister of Energy, Belizza Ruiz, stated that she was unaware of the “Balance of hydrocarbon contracts and resources available for the just energy transition”, now The then director of Hydrocarbons and who appears in the document, pointed out that he did not design or formulate the report.
Camilo Rincón, former director of Hydrocarbons at the Ministry of Mines and Energy and who appears in the credits of the report, says that their contributions and corrections to the document were unknown presented by the Ministry of Mines and Energy to support its decision not to grant new exploration contracts. Nevertheless, your name appears on the document.
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Precisely in his publication, Rincón says that he was not informed that he and two of his collaborators were going to be included as co-authors of the document, “therefore I did not issue approval to use my name in it”.
It also points out that the report says that the production projection was made by the Directorate of Hydrocarbons and make sure this is not true “since it was led by advisers from the minister’s office.”
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It should be remembered that the authors of the document that has been in the eye of the hurricane were John Londoño (former offshore manager at Ecopetrol) and Leonardo Rojas. This balance indicates that “andIt is possible to infer that the contingent resources, both from the Sinú 9 block and from the offshore discoveries, can supply the national demand and, iEven produce a surplus in its production until the year 2037. If we take into account the prospective resources, this supply can be extended until the year 2042”.
This affirmation has been strongly questioned since it adds the reserves with the contingent and prospective resources that have a high degree of uncertainty, so it cannot be ensured that it is possible to put them on the surface with certainty.
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Rincón affirms that the participation of the Directorate, in which it was until January 11, was exclusively to deliver the information required as the report of resources and reserves, production reports, among others.
For this reason, he points out that he is unaware of the technical assessments that give rise to the assessment that there is gas until 2037 or 2042.”I do not have the information that gave rise to such projections and it must be the formulators and structurers of the document who explain the methodologies and data used for this purpose”.
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