The oil companies that operate in Puerto Gaitán, Meta, warn that the blockades that have been registered in that region of the country, for seven days, are having an impact on employment and hydrocarbon production.
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The companies: Ecopetrol, Frontera, Hocol, Tecpetrol and Cepsa, also indicated that they are deeply concerned about the serious social and economic consequences that the blockade of the road that leads from Puerto Gaitán to the Rubiales village is increasingwhich has now completed 7 days, appeared to the inhabitants of the department of Meta and to companies.
As they estimate, There are more than 5,332 workers in the sector and their families affected, in addition to those of other productive activitiesto whom the firms point out that they It is violating their right to work and mobilityillegally preventing them from entering and leaving their workplaces.
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«The hydrocarbon industry stands in solidarity with them and with the other inhabitants of the area. The human rights of all those who are part of the territory must be guaranteed,» they explained.
Regarding the impacts, they say that the protesters are denying the passage of groceries and food, in addition to the fuel necessary for the continuous operation of the operations of the companies that to date they are failing to produce more than 49,500 barrels per day.
In addition, to the impact on oil operations in Meta, they point out that the load of the Cartagena and Barrancabermeja refineries is being impacted, which puts the supply of liquid fuels in Colombia at risk and other countries to which they are exported.
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The companies request that the departmental and local authorities, and the
National Government, look for joint solutions that allow lifting the blockade and reaching agreements in which the well-being of the department prevails.
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