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Four families in the municipality of Orito, Putumayo, have received new homes through Plan Padrino, the corporate volunteering program run by Parex Resources.

Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office has moved to implicate the outgoing Petro administration in a major corruption scandal centered on the Asociación Regional de Municipios del Caribe (Aremca), after the arrests of nine of the organization’s directors on charges related to the alleged diversion of more than CoP$496B in royalties funding through 101 inter-administrative agreements with twelve departments, most never fully executed.

The Barrancabermeja refinery, Ecopetrol’s flagship processing facility in Santander, has reached its highest crude throughput in twenty years, processing 245,500 bd of crude — a level that has since climbed further to approximately 246,000 bd, according to Milton Lara, the plant’s acting general manager.

The Ministry of Mines and Energy has issued Resolution 40164 of 2026, a new regulatory framework governing the closure and abandonment of oil wells in Colombia that simultaneously tightens environmental safeguards and opens the door to repurposing subsurface infrastructure for clean energy applications.

President Gustavo Petro used a cabinet meeting to announce that expiring Ecopetrol contracts would no longer receive automatic extensions, instead being subjected to open competitive processes.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its Wings of Change Americas (WOCA) conference in Santiago, Chile, with a stark warning about the financial pressure the Middle East conflict has placed on the aviation sector’s fuel supply chain. Peter Cerdá, IATA’s regional vice president for the Americas, told delegates that crude oil prices have climbed from roughly US$70 per barrel before hostilities began to above US$110 today.