Abstract La Cira Infantas is the oldest and largest oil field in Colombia with a total of 1,700 wells and home to 11,000 inhabitants. Occidental de Colombia, Inc is developing, with partner Ecopetrol (the Colombian national oil company), an IOR project that implies the reactivation/workover of 1,200 wells and drilling of 700 additional wells. Taking into consideration the geologic, technical, social, and environmental complexity of the project and the need to mitigate potential impacts to the community, a Geographical Information System (GIS) was developed that integrates the digital cartography and the satellite images with descriptive and alphanumeric information. The GIS has many uses but in this project, it has been uniquely applied to locate wells and minimize impacts to the community. The IOR project was conceived in three phases to define the social and technical risks. This paper addresses the challenges of social and technical risks and how the GIS applications facilitated the decision process in minimizing the social/community risks as well as achieve the economic objectives of developing the field. As a direct result of this work, the project has been able to prevent and mitigate potentially negative impacts to the environment and community by directing the selection of drilling and workover locations, identifying public utility needs, and documenting the demographics to direct specific and suitable social programs. Using this technique, the project is being implemented with careful analysis of the environmental aspects and stakeholders’ interests of each decision. This effort has resulted in the successful integration of social responsibility with the hydrocarbon redevelopment of the La Cira Infantas (LCI) field.