A carnival march against fracking in Puerto Wilches, Colombia (Photo: Alianza Colombia Libre de Fracking)Exxon Mobil is in talks with Colombia’s government in hopes of recovering its investment in a fracking pilot project as the U. After winning separate approvals to develop fracking pilot projects in Santander province, Exxon and Colombia’s majority state-owned oil company Ecopetrol said they would team up, with Ecopetrol as operator for both pilots. Ecopetrol’s new CEO Ricardo Roa said this week he would analyze that company’s fracking contracts “with a magnifying glass