Colombia has become a more accessible play for both oil and gas (O&G) producers and investors in recent years. A decline in the number of guerilla attacks that once threatened operators' employees and infrastructure has created a more welcoming atmosphere, in concert with the pro-business stance adopted by the former government under president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, and accelerated by current president Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, Uribe's former defence minister, who assumed office on August 7