Colombia's Ecopetrol faces hurdles, despite advances

Successful cost-reduction measures appear to have reversed Ecopetrol's fortunes, in a time of major external challenges

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Mexico’s Pemex will retrench in a bid to survive

While Pemex’s losses were far less in 2016 than in previous years, the company is still in serious danger

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The dispute between PT Freeport Indonesia and the government signals challenges for the entire mining industry

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Copper spot price, Feb 2016-Feb 2017 (dollars per tonne)

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Cobalt spot price, 2016-17 (thousand dollars per tonne)

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Uranium prices are rising as nuclear energy shows signs of growth but uncertainties persist

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Uranium price between 2012 and 2017 (pounds per dollar)

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OPEC members are complying with lower production quotas, but exempt countries are raising output, as is US shale

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BP and Kosmos work to conclude deal on a breakthrough offshore gas project on the Mauritanian and Senegalese borders

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Dollar weakness this year has drawn investors back to gold after a poor second half of 2016

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