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Former MinEnergia Amylkar D. Acosta M. mounts a sharp defense of Ecopetrol against what he characterizes as the Petro government’s intention to dismantle the company piecemeal, using the Ministry of Finance’s submission to Congress of an indicative plan to divest strategic assets valued at CoP$50T as his central exhibit.

Ecopetrol opened 2026 with a quarter that told two stories simultaneously: a seventh consecutive period of falling net income, and an EBITDA margin that matched the company’s best-ever historical quarters.

With Colombia’s FDI down 16% in 2025 to US$11.5B — and 33% over four years — the May 31 first-round election has intensified scrutiny of what each leading candidate would actually mean for foreign investment.

Arrow Exploration Corp. delivered a mixed full-year 2025, growing output while absorbing the dual hit of weaker crude prices and a significant asset impairment.

A dispute between two Colombian fuel distributors has drawn formal complaints to both the Fiscalía and the Ministry of Mines, reopening questions surrounding the Ocean Mariner — the Liberian-flagged vessel intercepted by the U.S. Navy in February after diverting from its declared destination in the Dominican Republic toward Cuba, carrying a cargo valued at US$6.9M.

Colombia has undergone a dramatic and largely unremarked structural shift in its gas supply over the past three years: a commodity that was overwhelmingly domestic has become increasingly imported, with consequences that will compound sharply if El Niño arrives as forecast.

Canacol Energy, Canada’s second-largest independent gas producer in Colombia, which is under creditor protection has attracted concern about a possible supply crisis.

MinEnergia has announced that the UPME has completed its technical evaluation of a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) project off the coast of La Guajira — clearing the way for what would become Colombia’s second regasification terminal and a significant diversification of the country’s increasingly strained gas supply infrastructure.

Ecopetrol’s bonds have staged an impressive run since March, but Wall Street analysts are now warning that the May 31 presidential election has become the single most important variable for the company’s long-term credit profile — potentially more consequential than oil prices, production volumes, or even the ongoing governance crisis at its headquarters.

Gran Tierra Energy reported Q1 2026 total working interest production of 45,497 boed, 2% below both Q4 2025 and Q1 2025, with Colombia contributing 21,319 boed. The sequential decline reflects waterflood optimization timing in Colombia and the disposal of the Canadian Simonette Montney assets for US$49M, partially offset by stronger-than-expected results from the Conejo wells in Ecuador’s Charapa Block.