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Parex Resources Colombia used an article in El Espectador to mark its track record under Colombia’s Works for Taxes mechanism — the scheme that allows companies to redirect a portion of their income tax obligations directly into public infrastructure projects in historically underserved regions.

The Unión Sindical Obrera issued a communiqué on May 30 calling on Colombians — and oil and gas workers in particular — to vote in the presidential election with the country’s energy future as their primary consideration.

President Gustavo Petro summoned three Ecopetrol board members — Hildebrando Vélez, Alberto José Merlano, and board chair Ángela María Robledo — to the Casa de Nariño on June 1, according to sources speaking to Valora Analitik.

Colombia’s environmental licensing authority ANLA used a June 1 press release to frame its recent activity on liquefied natural gas infrastructure in explicitly strategic terms: the accumulation of approved and pending regasification projects along the Caribbean coast is the country’s most concrete near-term tool for expanding gas supply, increasing competition, and improving prices for end users.

Colombia’s main oil sector union, the Unión Sindical Obrera (USO), launched a 24-hour work stoppage at Ecopetrol on June 2, citing what it described as a complete breakdown in negotiations over a new collective labor agreement.

Three senior voices in Colombia’s energy sector used a La República forum panel on May 29 to deliver a coordinated indictment of current energy policy — and a set of prescriptions the next government will need to act on quickly if a blackout is to be avoided in the second half of the year.