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Colombo-Venezuelan petrochemical company Monómeros Colombo Venezolanos S.A. has been rescued from insolvency after the Superintendency of Companies confirmed a reorganization agreement in hearings held on July 3 and 10, ending a sixteen-month legal process that began when Supersociedades initiated ex officio reorganization proceedings in March 2025 following a financial deterioration that threatened the company’s viability as a going concern.

GeoPark’s 2Q26 operational update, published July 21st, reveals a Colombian portfolio where the strategic story is less about new discoveries and more about the sophisticated management of existing assets.

Petro’s outgoing government filed its final tax reform before the new Congress on July 21^st, placing the mining and energy sector at the center of the fiscal controversy for the second time in four years.

Tomás González, former Minister of Mines and Energy and current director of the Centro Regional de Estudios de Energía (CREE), used a recent interview with El Tiempo’s María Isabel Rueda to deliver both his most direct assessment of the energy crisis the incoming government inherits and his most explicit argument for why hydrocarbons – not just renewables – are Colombia’s path out of it.

The Secretaría Jurídica de la Presidencia had several decrees in process on July 17^th accepting senior official resignations, El Tiempo’s Investigative Unit reported, as the outgoing Petro government entered its final three weeks.

The Regasificadora del Pacífico (RDP) project in Guadalajara de Buga, Valle del Cauca has surpassed 80% construction completion and remains on track to enter commercial operations before year-end, then-Mines and Energy Minister Edwin Palma confirmed during a July 16 site visit.