Creating and Sharing Prosperity in Casanare in 2024

In 2024 we worked together with our neighboring communities, facing challenges and delivering high-impact initiatives through our mutual commitment and permanent dialogue. We consolidated our relationship of Good Neighborliness, promoting sustainable development in Casanare through projects that help improve living conditions, nurture economic autonomy and protect the environment in our neighboring communities.

Alongside highlighting the principal milestones of our shared work, this newsletter is an opportunity to extend our thanks to our neighbors for being part of our common purpose of creating prosperity in the territory and helping drive it forward.

We are grateful for what we learned in 2024, and for every shared achievement. A summary of our work follows below:

Promoting the well-being of our neighboring communities

• We reached 90% completion in the construction of a sewerage system and Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plant in Caribayona. We will complete the project in the first half of 2025
• We invested more than 130 million pesos in improving the water supply system in the village of Buenos Aires Alto
• We donated a solid waste compactor vehicle to Villanueva municipality, benefiting more than 11,400 people
• We provided 2,303 free of charge specialized medical consultations and surgery in Villanueva and Tauramena, in partnership with the Colombian Civil Air Patrol
• We provided 1,500 study kits to children who neighbor our operation in Casanare
• We invested more than 250 million pesos in adapting the educational infrastructure in the Alfonso Lopez site of San Agustin school
• We benefited more than 200 people in Piñalito Alto through providing a playground and renovating the community meeting room
• We are making repairs on the first kilometer of the La Vara-Soceagro road in Villanueva
• We started the plan to strengthen the Pinalito Alto and Tua bridges, working with the Government of Casanare and Parex
• We signed an agreement to donate construction machinery to the Tauramena Mayor’s Office, and will deliver in the first quarter of 2025
• We gave Internet access to more than 80 families in Punta del Guira in Tauramena and Buenos Aires Alto in Villanueva through installing digital connectivity kits
• We supported the sports training of more than 120 boys and girls through a shared program with the Braian Angola Foundation
• We will help create energy communities by installing 1,058 photovoltaic solutions in Monterrey and Paz de Ariporo, through the Works for Taxes mechanism. We will finish this project in June 2025
• We will improve the conditions of 39 educational institutions to benefit over 4,600 students from Hato Corozal and La Salina by providing furniture and cultural elements, through the Works for Taxes mechanism

Promoting knowledge and ownership in the responsible management of natural resources and their conservation:

• We inaugurated the first Green Classroom in Tauramena, an innovative and sustainable space designed to support the education of students at the Regional Center for Research, Education and Extension (CRIEET)
• We launched the ‘Biodiversity in the Llanos 34 Block’ book, detailing the flora and fauna monitoring and the biodiversity projects that we have implemented in the area surrounding the block
• We conserved more than 22 hectares and installed 10 productive beekeeping systems as part of a conservation project in the Mata de La Urama Regional Integrated Management District (DRMI) in Tauramena
• We became the first company in Colombia’s oil and gas sector to verify its water footprint for all its operations in the country
• We worked with the Government of Casanare, the Tauramena and Villanueva Mayor’s Offices and the Cajeto Foundation to promote an initiative that provides safe spaces for wildlife to cross roads
• We provided the Colombian Biodiversity Information System (SiB Colombia) with more than 88,000 records of animal and plant species in the country
• In partnership with the Government of Casanare, we are working on the installation of four wildlife crossings on the Central Road in Casanare, in the area of influence of our Llanos 34 and Llanos 87 blocks
• We helped provide anaerobic digesters to our neighboring communities in Villanueva, together with the Cajeto Foundation

We are committed to continuing to help improve the living conditions of the people of Casanare, and thanks to our operations in Villanueva and Tauramena we will continue to support high-impact social investment and environmental management projects.

To see the summary of the 2024 ‘Good News, Good Neighbors’ newsletter, click here.