Colombia’s mining-energy sector is projected to post a 0.3% GDP contraction in the second quarter of 2026, extending a decline that traces back to the first quarter of 2024.
Ecopetrol deployed education and infrastructure initiatives reaching more than 447,000 students and teachers across 47 municipalities in 17 departments between 2023 and 2025.
We easily accept that 18th Century technology was radically different from today, but we can be shocked to find that human and political issues haven’t changed.
Aquiles Mercado opens his El Heraldo column with the etymology of a “leonine contract” – from Aesop’s fable of the lion who partners with others to hunt, then keeps the whole spoils – to argue that Colombia’s high LNG import prices aren’t unfair or predatory, but simply the market pricing a scarce good controlled by whoever sells it.
Ecopetrol’s own board has assumed for months that Sirius, the Caribbean gas megaproject, will likely slip a year past its publicly stated 2030 start date to 2031. When did they plan to tell us?
Fitch Ratings will be watching whether Colombia’s new government succeeds in reviving hydrocarbons exploration and lifting production, according to Richard Francis, co-director of Fitch’s Latin America Sovereign Ratings group.
Colombia’s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development swore in its new leadership team on August 13, including Sergio Arturo Piñeros Botero as director of the Agencia Nacional de Licencias Ambientales (ANLA) — the agency responsible for environmental licensing of major hydrocarbons projects, from offshore exploration wells to pipeline infrastructure like SPEC’s recent capacity expansion.
Ecopetrol’s gas sales volume fell 22.1% in the second quarter of 2026, with gas now representing just 6.9% of the group’s total sales — down sharply from 10.6% in 2Q22, when Gustavo Petro took office.
Argentina has become Latin America’s benchmark for unconventional hydrocarbons development, and Colombia is now looking to that experience as it moves toward authorizing fracking under President Abelardo De la Espriella.
Colombia’s exports grew 7% in June and 14.2% for H1 2026, but the gains are concentrated almost entirely in oil, coal, and gold, while agricultural exports fell.
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