Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Three rural communities in Cartagena’s northern zone — Arroyo de Piedra, Arroyo Grande, and Arroyo de las Canoas — will receive piped natural gas service for the first time in their history, after Mayor Dumek Turbay Paz confirmed on July 6 that the Cartagena district government has secured the necessary resources through the Sistema General de Regalías.
Venezuela’s interim government published sweeping new petroleum sector regulations on July 9, following up on changes to the petroleum law introduced in recent months.
Tomás de la Calle is back, this time looking at the country’s declining gas reserves and wondering about the UPME’s role in getting us to here … and getting us back to self-sufficiency.
The conventional explanation for Latin America’s electric vehicle boom, as Bloomberg Línea documented for Uruguay this month, is straightforward: when gasoline costs US$7.60 a gallon – the highest in the region – the economics of switching to electric become irresistible.
The Alberta court’s June 24th authorization for Canacol to void its gas contracts has generated a widening circle of sector responses that go beyond the immediate Cerro Matoso crisis, touching distribution companies, the coal sector, industrial associations, and legal scholars, all of whom converged on a single point: the decisive chapter will be written not in Calgary but in Bogotá.
Two concurrent market developments are repositioning liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as a strategic energy alternative in Colombia and both are being driven by the same underlying force: the accelerating collapse of domestic natural gas supply at a moment when imported gas is becoming too expensive for the country’s interior regions to absorb.
President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella has confirmed ten of his ministers with just under a month until his August 7th inauguration, in a process that Cambio Colombia tracked across multiple rounds of announcements.
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