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Drummond Energy (a Drummond Ltd. subsidiary) recently announced it will prioritize shale fracking projects in the Cesar-Rancheria basin over building a regasification plant in Cienaga<\/a> and importing natural gas. According to country manager Alberto Garcia, the gas beneath the basin could multiply the country’s reserves tenfold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes with the backing of President Abelardo De La Espriella’s government, which pledged on the campaign trail, in his own words, to develop \u00abresponsible and sustainable fracking\u00bb in Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s one of the most significant energy policy shifts the country has seen in years. Still, it took me straight back to Drummond’s fracking episode from a few years ago. We’ve seen this movie before, just under a different title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, Colombia’s Council of State ordered a halt to 15 coalbed methane wells Drummond was operating in the La Loma field, in Caporo Norte. The lawsuit originated with a citizen complaint alleging the company was using a technique the country had banned the year before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drummond pushed back, saying what it was doing wasn’t fracking<\/a>: these were vertical wells using traditional hydraulic stimulation, the same technique used in Colombia for over fifty years in other fields. And they had a point, sort of: it was a form of fracking, just not the \u00abfracking\u00bb the law was written to regulate. The technique the ban targeted required horizontal drilling and multistage fracturing of shale formations, conditions those wells didn’t meet. A year later, in 2020, the Council of State agreed and reversed the suspension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here’s what actually happened underneath the legal technicalities: a community, represented by a single citizen, had no way of telling apart the several things people call \u00abfracking.\u00bb A distinction that’s second nature to anyone working in oil and gas never became shared knowledge between the company and the community around it. That gap got filled the way gaps like this usually do: with long documents written by lawyers, in dense legal language, and with news outlets simply repeating quotes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we’re talking about horizontal, multistage fracking arriving within a few short years, with contracts ready to go and a target of drilling the first wells by 2027. And I find myself wondering whether we’re actually ready for that, from a communications standpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real work here goes beyond social media content, or showing up in communities with forms and flyers to check a compliance box. The 2019 case proved that a company can meet every regulatory requirement and still end up in court, because what was missing wasn’t paperwork. It was clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building that shared understanding, explaining to a community, in terms it can verify for itself, what separates one technique from another, what safeguards exist, what questions are fair to ask and who to ask them to, isn’t a last minute task you tack on once the contract is signed and the first well is about to be drilled. Communicating isn’t just about checking the environmental and social boxes ANLA requires. It’s a strategy that has to start before prior consultation begins, not during it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2019 Drummond case was never really about whether fracking was safe. It was about whether anyone, before the lawsuit arrived, had done the work of explaining what was happening there, as many times as it took, with the right tools and a shared language, so that anyone in the community could explain it themselves and understand the benefits a project like this brings. Build a strong, consistent communications architecture, and you cultivate allies. Skip it, and you sow opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drummond Energy (a Drummond Ltd. subsidiary) recently announced it will prioritize shale fracking projects in the Cesar-Rancheria basin over building a regasification plant in Cienaga and importing natural gas. According to country manager Alberto Garcia, the gas beneath the basin could multiply the country’s reserves tenfold. The decision comes with the backing of President Abelardo … <\/p>\n

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