Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
President Abelardo De la Espriella issued Decree 1373 de 2026, assigning Vice President José Manuel Restrepo a broad interinstitutional and intersectoral coordination role covering state modernization, education, strategic resources, energy security, economic growth, competitiveness, macroeconomic stability, and Colombia’s international investment positioning.
Valora Analitik obtained a draft decree the De la Espriella government is preparing to regulate offshore oil and gas production, covering operations Ecopetrol develops directly, agreements with Ecopetrol and partners, or agreements with the Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH).
Ecopetrol board chairman Luis Felipe Henao will demand interim president Juan Carlos Hurtado’s irrevocable resignation at an extraordinary board meeting.
Ariel Corzo Díaz, an Ecopetrol worker and USO union member, filed an injunction (tutela) seeking to suspend the company’s general shareholders assembly, scheduled for September 15, arguing the board slate improperly reused January 2026’s internal union vote to place César Loza in the seventh workers’-representative board seat rather than reopening nomination and voting.
Some might hope that gas production improves since SPEC is reaching its capacity and no other LNG import facilities have come online. That’s not the case.
Enercer S.A. E.S.P. announced a natural gas service suspension Tuesday night across 11 municipalities in eastern Boyacá — Garagoa, Tenza, La Capilla, Sutatenza, Guateque, Miraflores, Zetaquira, Berbeo, Páez, San Eduardo, and Campohermoso.
Ariel Daniels De Andréis, governor of Taganga’s indigenous cabildo, directly disputed Ecopetrol’s characterization of the community’s prior-consultation demands for the Sirius gas project.
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