Thursday, June 18th, 2026
Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) has failed to publish its annual Resources and Reserves Report (IRR) for 2025, more than 45 days after the legally mandated deadline of April 30.
Venezuela has formalized a licensing agreement with Shell for the development and production of the Loran gas field, the Venezuelan side of the cross-border Loran-Manatee accumulation shared with Trinidad and Tobago.
A post-election analysis by Arteaga Latam of Colombia’s May 31 first-round presidential vote finds that the country’s 131 oil- and gas-producing municipalities delivered nearly the entire national margin for Abelardo de la Espriella over Iván Cepeda — and that those same territories could again prove decisive in Sunday’s runoff.
Deutsche Bank and Corficolombiana both published assessments on June 12 framing the same basic question ahead of Colombia’s June 21 presidential runoff: what comes after the vote, and how durable will any initial market optimism prove to be?
Moody’s Ratings issued a sector-wide alert on Colombia’s energy and gas industry, warning that credit conditions for companies across the chain — generation, transmission, and distribution — will continue to deteriorate at least until the first half of 2027.
Colombia perforated 16 exploratory wells in the A2 and A3 categories between January and April 2026, one fewer than the 17 drilled in the same period of 2025 — a 5.9% decline that halts, at least provisionally, the momentum built during last year’s partial recovery.
Pacto Histórico presidential candidate Iván Cepeda used a June 10 interview on Caracol Radio’s 6AM W with Julio Sánchez Cristo to lay out his position on Ecopetrol, the energy transition, and the future of hydrocarbon policy under a possible Cepeda government.
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