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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.

Colombia has undergone a dramatic and largely unremarked structural shift in its gas supply over the past three years: a commodity that was overwhelmingly domestic has become increasingly imported, with consequences that will compound sharply if El Niño arrives as forecast.

Canacol Energy, Canada’s second-largest independent gas producer in Colombia, which is under creditor protection has attracted concern about a possible supply crisis.

MinEnergia has announced that the UPME has completed its technical evaluation of a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) project off the coast of La Guajira — clearing the way for what would become Colombia’s second regasification terminal and a significant diversification of the country’s increasingly strained gas supply infrastructure.