Monday, July 6th, 2026
More than one million Colombian families still rely on firewood or charcoal for cooking — among the most polluting and health-damaging combustion sources in daily domestic use — and Ecopetrol’s Gas Social program exists to close that gap one network connection at a time.



Colombia’s energy regulator CREG released an infographic guide explaining how it will manage the continuity of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) public distribution service under its PERP/PC regulatory project framework, a process designed to ensure that LPG infrastructure remains operational when existing operators cannot or will not continue executing a project.
The incoming de la Espriella government’s stated ambition to expand oil and gas production is the easy part of its energy agenda — the hard part is bridging the supply gap before new production arrives.
Petrobras has confirmed that it has completed the advance commercialization of the full volume of natural gas corresponding to its participation in the offshore Sirius project, developed jointly with Ecopetrol in the Colombian Caribbean.
Colombia’s energy regulator CREG took a concrete step toward regulating hydrogen injection into the national gas transport network on June 24, hosting a sector workshop and publishing two technical studies on the economics and engineering of hydrogen-natural gas blending (H2+CH4) in the Sistema Nacional de Transporte (SNT).
regasification terminal in Cartagena shuts down for scheduled maintenance.
The five-day window may sound manageable in isolation, but El Tiempo’s energy sector analysis places it inside a set of compounding vulnerabilities that make it anything but routine.
The Port of Tumaco on Colombia’s Pacific coast received a shipment of 103,000 barrels of fuel from the Cartagena refinery on June 20, in what Minister of Mines and Energy Edwin Palma framed as the reactivation of a strategic logistics node that will diversify fuel supply routes for Nariño and the country’s southwestern departments.