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President Gustavo Petro signed Decreto 0905 on July 30^th, naming Edwin Palma – currently Minister of Mines and Energy – as ad hoc Minister of Labor and ad hoc Minister of Housing, City, and Territory, concentrating three portfolios in one official just a week before the administration’s term ends on August 7^th.

Decreto 0526 de 2026 has raised alarms in Cauca after the Compañía Energética de Occidente (CEO) warned the measure will alter the Fondo de Energía Social (FOES) and could push energy bills up by as much as 30% for roughly 178,000 users starting June 1, 2027.

Ecopetrol has taken action to have illegally copied information from roughly 15 companies within its business group removed from public access, working in coordination with the Fiscalía General de la Nación and the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MinTIC),

Parex Resources framed its second-quarter 2026 results around the strategic transformation from its Frontera acquisition rather than the quarter’s numbers alone.

Back for only a single day, Ricardo Roa delivered his farewell address as Ecopetrol president on July 30^th, closing a tenure marked by controversy that now has him facing judicial scrutiny.

Ecopetrol raised its natural gas contribution to 97 GBTUd to help cover the deficit created by the scheduled maintenance of the SPEC LNG regasification plant, which ran from Thursday, July 30^th  to Monday, August 3^rd.