Strengthening neighborly relations with communities and promoting sustainable territorial development in 2024

Bogotá, Colombia
January 14, 2025

In 2024, we continued to work closely with neighboring communities in Casanare, Meta and Putumayo in Colombia, areas where we develop hydrocarbon exploration and production activities.

With support from communities, authorities and non-profit organizations, we delivered high-impact initiatives to create and share prosperity through projects that improve neighbors’ living conditions, promote economic autonomy and preserve respective social environments.

The results of this work are covered in the latest edition of the Good News, Good Neighbors newsletter, which summarizes the most representative advances related to our dialogue initiatives and social and environmental matters, as well as our contribution to local hiring.

Highlights of our efforts in this area include:

  • Over 2,070 local workers involved in operations, representing 81% of the total workforce
  • Commercial relationships with more than 70 local companies through contracts to provide goods and services.
  • Reaching 90% completion in building a sewerage system and a residential wastewater treatment plant in Caribayona, Casanare that will improve the living conditions of 1,300 inhabitants
  • The announcement of four Works for Taxes projects totaling 18 billion pesos investment that will benefit more than 8,800 people in Casanare through energy and school equipment projects
  • Providing over 3,980 free medical consultations and procedures in Meta, Casanare and Putumayo departments in partnership with the Colombian Civil Air Patrol through medical-surgical brigades benefitting hundreds of Colombians
  • Preparing Comprehensive Life Plans for the Achagua and Piapoco ethnic groups in Meta, a 12-year socioeconomic development project co-designed with the community
  • Supporting the musical training of more than 100 children and young adults from Puerto Asis, Putumayo, through a partnership with the National Batuta Foundation
  • Supporting 85 entrepreneurs in Putumayo through the second phase of the Entrepreneurship and Growth program, in partnership with the Putumayo Chamber of Commerce
  • Calculating the water footprint of all our operations in Colombia and Ecuador, creating a baseline to improve our water management
  • Contributing more than 88,000 records of animal and plant species to the Colombian Biodiversity Information System, and, in partnership with the Orinoquia Biodiversa Foundation (FOB), publishing the ‘Biodiversity in the Llanos 34 Block” book

We underscore our commitment to work together with institutions and our neighboring communities, and in 2025 we expect to continue strengthening partnerships that will help create a legacy of sustainable development and prosperity in the areas where we operate.

For more information on our sustainable development work in Meta, Casanare, Putumayo departments in Colombia, click on the respective links.

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