Monday, October 20th, 2025
The Colombian government has reignited one of the country’s most divisive environmental debates with a proposal to ban all oil, gas, and mining activities across the entire Amazon biome, a region that covers more than 43% of national territory.
Lately, Ecopetrol has talked about a third regas facility at Coveñas which makes (somewhat) more sense than its comical Buenaventura plans. Why would anyone but Rube Goldberg propose such a scheme? On second thought, maybe we don’t want to know why the NOC came up with them.
Colombia’s looming natural gas shortage has reignited debate over where to build the country’s next regasification terminal, or whether it should, in fact, build two.
On Colombia’s Caribbean coast, the Coveñas maritime terminal serves as the beating heart of the country’s oil exports, a complex that moves between 90% and 95% of all crude shipped abroad.
Colombia’s industrial sector is bracing for a challenging energy outlook. Following recent maintenance work at the Cartagena regasification terminal, which nearly led to rationing in the Caribbean region, industrial leaders are now warning of a 50% increase in natural gas prices by 2026, alongside growing uncertainty about supply.
Global oil markets are heading toward a potential glut, as production rises faster than demand over the next two years, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Colombia’s natural gas industry has made major strides toward decarbonization, achieving a 27.1% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to 2022 levels, according to the 2024 Carbon Footprint Report released by Naturgas.
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