Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
Petro’s outgoing government filed its final tax reform before the new Congress on July 21st, placing the mining and energy sector at the center of the fiscal controversy for the second time in four years.
The Canacol Energy case moved into its Colombian legal chapter on July 16th when Promigas and Gases del Caribe confirmed to El Heraldo that the Alberta Court of King’s Bench had issued formal termination orders for their supply and transport contracts with the Canadian gas producer.
The incoming De la Espriella government has made enabling unconventional hydrocarbon extraction one of its most explicit energy policy commitments and the outgoing Petro government has moved to make that path as legally difficult as possible with fewer than three weeks left in office.
Ecopetrol disclosed on July 17 that an unidentified external actor successfully accessed its cloud storage environments without authorization, downloading data associated with approximately 3,300 user accounts across 15 companies within the Ecopetrol Group.
Campo Rubiales completed a decade of direct operation under Ecopetrol on July 3rd, 2026 – marked from the moment in July 2016 when the state oil company assumed control of the field following the expiry of the operating contract held by Pacific Rubiales, now Frontera Energy.
President Gustavo Petro requested and received the resignation of Mines and Energy Minister Edwin Palma on July 17th, placing ANH president Pablo Yesid Fajardo in temporary charge of the ministry with just over three weeks left in the government.
Ricardo Roa’s leave from Ecopetrol expires July 27th and under his contract he would legally return as company president on July 28th – just ten days before the August 7th inauguration of Abelardo de la Espriella, who has called him a thief and a criminal and whose government’s stated first act is to convene an extraordinary shareholders meeting to replace him.
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