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Fitch Ratings placed Frontera Energy Corporation’s US$310M senior unsecured notes due June 2028 on Rating Watch Positive (RWP), maintaining the existing ‘B’ rating with a Recovery Rating of ‘RR4’, in a commentary published May 8.

Former MinEnergia Amylkar D. Acosta M. mounts a sharp defense of Ecopetrol against what he characterizes as the Petro government’s intention to dismantle the company piecemeal, using the Ministry of Finance’s submission to Congress of an indicative plan to divest strategic assets valued at CoP$50T as his central exhibit.

Ecopetrol opened 2026 with a quarter that told two stories simultaneously: a seventh consecutive period of falling net income, and an EBITDA margin that matched the company’s best-ever historical quarters.

With Colombia’s FDI down 16% in 2025 to US$11.5B — and 33% over four years — the May 31 first-round election has intensified scrutiny of what each leading candidate would actually mean for foreign investment.

Arrow Exploration Corp. delivered a mixed full-year 2025, growing output while absorbing the dual hit of weaker crude prices and a significant asset impairment.

A dispute between two Colombian fuel distributors has drawn formal complaints to both the Fiscalía and the Ministry of Mines, reopening questions surrounding the Ocean Mariner — the Liberian-flagged vessel intercepted by the U.S. Navy in February after diverting from its declared destination in the Dominican Republic toward Cuba, carrying a cargo valued at US$6.9M.