President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia, January 13th 2012:
“We’re not going to achieve this million barrels (of production per day) in August of 2014, I believe we’re going to get there this month or next month at the latest.”
Mining & Energy Minister Mauricio Cárdenas, May 29th 2012:
Colombia will reach its target of producing one million barrels of petroleum per day (bpd) in two months’ time…. “…we really are very close, we have the oil…”
A chart:
Another chart:
Source: ANH (who, unlike the quoted, are not political BS merchants)