A post-election analysis by Arteaga Latam of Colombia’s May 31 first-round presidential vote finds that the country’s 131 oil- and gas-producing municipalities delivered nearly the entire national margin for Abelardo de la Espriella over Iván Cepeda — and that those same territories could again prove decisive in Sunday’s runoff.
Deutsche Bank and Corficolombiana both published assessments on June 12 framing the same basic question ahead of Colombia’s June 21 presidential runoff: what comes after the vote, and how durable will any initial market optimism prove to be?
Moody’s Ratings issued a sector-wide alert on Colombia’s energy and gas industry, warning that credit conditions for companies across the chain — generation, transmission, and distribution — will continue to deteriorate at least until the first half of 2027.
Colombia perforated 16 exploratory wells in the A2 and A3 categories between January and April 2026, one fewer than the 17 drilled in the same period of 2025 — a 5.9% decline that halts, at least provisionally, the momentum built during last year’s partial recovery.
Pacto Histórico presidential candidate Iván Cepeda used a June 10 interview on Caracol Radio’s 6AM W with Julio Sánchez Cristo to lay out his position on Ecopetrol, the energy transition, and the future of hydrocarbon policy under a possible Cepeda government.
Ecopetrol and Parex Resources donated firefighting equipment to the volunteer fire brigades of San Miguel and Valle del Guamuez municipalities in Putumayo on June 12, under the Acuerdo Empresarial Putumayo, a joint social investment mechanism the two companies operate in the department. The combined investment exceeded CoP$25M.
Colombia set a new record in the first week of June 2026, with imported gas reaching 32% of total national gas consumption — the highest share ever recorded in the country’s energy balance.
The Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) announced in the early hours of June 13 that it had reached a collective agreement with Ecopetrol, closing a labor conflict that had been running since May 2025 and which included a 24-hour strike the union called to press its demands. Negotiations concluded at approximately 4:50 a.m., according to the union.
The Ministry of Mines and Energy formally issued a resolution on June 13 activating a preventive supply protection plan for the scheduled maintenance of the SPEC LNG regasification terminal in Cartagena, set to run from July 30 to August 3, 2026.
Presidential candidate Abelardo De la Espriella released a gas policy document on June 11 outlining his administration’s approach to resolving Colombia’s looming supply deficit, with vice-presidential candidate and former minister José Manuel Restrepo serving as the technical face of the proposal.
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