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The Secretaría Jurídica de la Presidencia had several decrees in process on July 17^th accepting senior official resignations, El Tiempo’s Investigative Unit reported, as the outgoing Petro government entered its final three weeks.

The Regasificadora del Pacífico (RDP) project in Guadalajara de Buga, Valle del Cauca has surpassed 80% construction completion and remains on track to enter commercial operations before year-end, then-Mines and Energy Minister Edwin Palma confirmed during a July 16 site visit.

The Canacol Energy case moved into its Colombian legal chapter on July 16^th 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 3^rd, 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.