Monday, May 25th, 2026
Colombia enters its May 31 presidential first round with four polling firms pointing in the same general direction — Iván Cepeda first, Abelardo de la Espriella second, Paloma Valencia third — but diverging so sharply on margins that they imply fundamentally different results.
The first physical components of Colombia’s Pacific Regasification Plant are now in transit, marking a concrete step forward for one of the country’s important gas infrastructure projects.
Juan Gonzalo Castaño Valderrama has resigned from Ecopetrol’s board of directors after just over three months in the role, the latest disruption to the state oil company’s already turbulent governance.
NG Energy International Corp. (“NGE” or the “Company”) announced that it had filed its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2026.
Arrow Exploration Corp. reported encouraging results from two separate wells on its Tapir Block in Colombia’s Llanos Basin in back-to-back press releases issued May 8 and May 13, 2026, covering an appraisal well at Mateguafa and an exploration well at the newly drilled Icaco prospect.
Ecopetrol set a new operational record in early May when it loaded a 500,000-barrel fuel oil cargo onto a vessel at the Puerto Bahía maritime terminal near Cartagena — double its previous maximum for a single shipment.
Colombia’s economy is being throttled by what financial corporation Corficolombiana calls an “invisible tax” — the accumulated weight of regulatory complexity, institutional fragmentation, and administrative bottlenecks that drive up costs without appearing in any official fiscal accounting.
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