Monday, June 8th, 2026
A year ago, Ecopetrol and Transportadora de Gas Internacional (TGI), the pipeline subsidiary of Grupo Energía Bogotá, were competing fiercely to build Colombia’s next LNG import terminal on the Caribbean coast, each claiming its project was the faster and more technically viable path to first gas in early 2027. Both promises have since deflated.
Since December 2024, we know that Colombia’s imported gas has been used for purposes other than feeding gas-powered thermogeneration plants, the reason regas facility SPEC was built in the first place. But is it significant?
Parex Resources Colombia used an article in El Espectador to mark its track record under Colombia’s Works for Taxes mechanism — the scheme that allows companies to redirect a portion of their income tax obligations directly into public infrastructure projects in historically underserved regions.
The Unión Sindical Obrera issued a communiqué on May 30 calling on Colombians — and oil and gas workers in particular — to vote in the presidential election with the country’s energy future as their primary consideration.
President Gustavo Petro summoned three Ecopetrol board members — Hildebrando Vélez, Alberto José Merlano, and board chair Ángela María Robledo — to the Casa de Nariño on June 1, according to sources speaking to Valora Analitik.
Colombia’s environmental licensing authority ANLA used a June 1 press release to frame its recent activity on liquefied natural gas infrastructure in explicitly strategic terms: the accumulation of approved and pending regasification projects along the Caribbean coast is the country’s most concrete near-term tool for expanding gas supply, increasing competition, and improving prices for end users.
Colombia’s main oil sector union, the Unión Sindical Obrera (USO), launched a 24-hour work stoppage at Ecopetrol on June 2, citing what it described as a complete breakdown in negotiations over a new collective labor agreement.
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