Monday, June 15th, 2026
Colombia set a new record in the first week of June 2026, with imported gas reaching 32% of total national gas consumption — the highest share ever recorded in the country’s energy balance.
Elevated Brent crude prices driven by sustained Middle East tensions are handing Colombia a significant fiscal windfall in 2026.
Colombia’s oil and gas industry association, the ACP, has issued a public alert over a work stoppage that began June 5 at production fields in Puerto Gaitán, Meta, organized by members of the metalworking trades.
The Petro administration has announced the reactivation of the former Impala terminal in Barrancabermeja under a new name — Puerto Voluntad — with operations set to begin July 1.
Colombia’s May 2026 headline inflation rose to 5.84%, according to DANE, with the main drivers in rental housing, water supply, food, and restaurants. Within the utilities subcomponent, however, gas performed strikingly differently: residential gas prices rose just 0.45% month-on-month, contributing a negligible 0.01 percentage points to overall inflation.
The Colombian stock market became briefly the best-performing bourse in the world on June 1, with the MSCI Colcap index surging around 6% in early trading after Abelardo de la Espriella topped the presidential first round with 43.7% of the vote, a margin well above what Wall Street consensus had expected.
Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) — the propane-butane blend sold in cylinder form in Colombian homes — is emerging as an increasingly strategic energy source at precisely the moment the country’s natural gas supply is under the greatest pressure it has faced in years.
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