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Colombia’s third LNG regasification project reached a visible construction milestone in late June when the Sociedad Portuaria Regional de Buenaventura received 30 heavy components — individual pieces weighing between 37 and 76 tonnes — destined for the regasification facility being built in Buga, Valle del Cauca.

Colombia’s energy regulator CREG released an infographic guide explaining how it will manage the continuity of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) public distribution service under its PERP/PC regulatory project framework, a process designed to ensure that LPG infrastructure remains operational when existing operators cannot or will not continue executing a project.

The incoming de la Espriella government’s stated ambition to expand oil and gas production is the easy part of its energy agenda — the hard part is bridging the supply gap before new production arrives.

Petrobras has confirmed that it has completed the advance commercialization of the full volume of natural gas corresponding to its participation in the offshore Sirius project, developed jointly with Ecopetrol in the Colombian Caribbean.

Colombia’s energy regulator CREG took a concrete step toward regulating hydrogen injection into the national gas transport network on June 24, hosting a sector workshop and publishing two technical studies on the economics and engineering of hydrogen-natural gas blending (H2+CH4) in the Sistema Nacional de Transporte (SNT).

regasification terminal in Cartagena shuts down for scheduled maintenance.

The five-day window may sound manageable in isolation, but El Tiempo’s energy sector analysis places it inside a set of compounding vulnerabilities that make it anything but routine.