Colombia’s Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Lara, announced changes to his ministry’s Dirección de Consulta Previa, on President Abelardo De la Espriella’s instruction, aimed at speeding up investment and infrastructure projects the government considers priorities.
Colombia’s State Council issued a ruling delimiting the right to protest and establishing civil liability for those who paralyze productive economic activity through violent means, overturning a Meta administrative tribunal’s earlier dismissal of an Ecopetrol claim.
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ANH president Ernesto Forero visited Canacol Energy’s Estación Jobo in Sahagún, Córdoba, on August 27 to see the company’s gas operations firsthand and identify concrete sector needs for formulating actions to recover production.
Arrow Exploration reported Q2 2026 revenue of US$34.2 million, up 116% year-on-year, with production averaging 4,902 boe/d (+30%), Adjusted EBITDA of US$25.1 million (+300%), and net income of US$10.4 million, reversing a US$0.9 million loss in Q2 2025.
Sirius, the offshore Caribbean gas project Colombia is counting on to restore natural gas self-sufficiency, faces a bottleneck from a single unresolved prior consultation with Taganga, an artisanal fishing community near Santa Marta, financial demands Ecopetrol has characterized in stark terms.
The Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (SIC) granted Universidad del Norte and Promigas a patent for their jointly developed “Active System for Pipe Defect Repair” via Resolución 32010 of April 29, 2026.
Gasoline and diesel prices held flat in 13 of Colombia’s principal cities, including Bogotá, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Montería, and Villavicencio, when comparing rates from August 1 and August 26, 2026, though the national average edged slightly lower over that window.
The Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos announced the creation of the Grupo Estratégico de Aceleración de Proyectos de Gas (GEAPG), a temporary institutional coordination mechanism aimed at accelerating new natural gas volumes into the market as El Niño approaches.
Ecopetrol committed CoP$5,000 million to support families affected by the August 10 earthquake and its aftershocks, which have left more than 50,000 people displaced nationally, coordinating with the national government and disaster-risk authorities on aid delivery.
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