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Chile to ratify ILO Convention 176 on mining health and safety

By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, August 16, 2022.
The president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, stated last week that his government will ratify Convention 176 of the International Labor Organization (ILO) on health and safety in mines to avoid risks during the execution of the activity in this economic field.

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Ecopetrol confirms gas discovery in Colombian Caribbean waters

By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, August 16, 2022.
Ecopetrol announced that the Gorgon-2 exploratory and delimiting well proved the presence of gas in ultra-deep waters in the southern Colombian Caribbean, with a water column of about 2,400 meters, the largest ever drilled in Colombia, and a total depth of more than 4,000 meters.

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88 Energy Limited announced over 1 billion barrels of oil in Alaska

By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, August 15, 2022.
88 Energy Limited has reported an independently certified maiden prospective resource estimate of 1.03 billion barrels of oil, on a gross average and unrisked basis, for the development of the Icewine East Project in Alaska, in which the company has a 75 percent net operating interest.

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