03 November 2010

COLOMBIA/VENEZUELA: Chavez And Santos Meet; Sign Energy Accords And Vow To Improve Relations.

AP/    Presidents Hugo Chavez and Juan Manuel Santos agreed in Caracas to strengthen ties through energy projects and improve relations.
    REUTERS reports that Venezuela will supply Colombia with 7,700 bpd of liquid fuels and Colombia's Ecopetrol may get access to the Orinoco extra heavy crude belt.
    Plans for a natural gas pipeline stretching from Venezuela to Central America will also be resurrected as will a proposal to build an oil pipeline from Venezuela's oil fields to Colombia's Pacific coast.