Monday, April 13th, 2026
Presidential candidate Iván Cepeda, running on a platform broadly aligned with the Petro government’s ideology, used a campaign rally to outline his energy policy intentions for Ecopetrol, firmly rejecting any dilution of the state’s controlling stake in the company.
Ecopetrol assumed direct operation of the gas processing plant at the Gibraltar field on April 1, 2026, following the expiry of a 15-year BOMT (Build, Operate, Maintain and Transfer) contract with Gas Gibraltar S.A.S.
Richard Francis, co-director of Sovereign Ratings for the Americas at Fitch Ratings, delivered a sober assessment of Colombia’s fiscal and economic outlook in an interview published April 6, 2026, estimating the country would need at least three to four additional years to recover the investment grade it lost in 2021.
Colombia has established a new maritime fuel supply route to the southwestern Pacific coast, with 40,000 barrels of domestically produced diesel arriving in the department of Nariño for the first time via the Pacific Ocean.
Colombia’s national oil production averaged 734,924 bd in February 2026, coming in 2.3% above the proven reserves (1P) production scenario of 718,168 bd, the Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH) reported on March 30.
Colombia’s Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (SIC) announced on March 30, 2026 that it has opened a formal administrative procedure to evaluate a business integration request filed jointly by Ecopetrol S.A. and Gran Tierra Energy.
The Ministry of Mines and Energy issued Resolution 40163 on March 27, 2026, authorizing thermal power plants to commercialize imported natural gas on the secondary market – a transitional measure valid for six months designed to unlock underutilized LNG import capacity and broaden gas supply at a moment of acute national shortage.
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