Ariel Daniels De Andréis, governor of Taganga’s indigenous cabildo, directly disputed Ecopetrol’s characterization of the community’s prior-consultation demands for the Sirius gas project.
Ecopetrol and the UK Embassy awarded four Colombians — one from Cartagena, one from Barranquilla, and two from Bogotá — Chevening-Ecopetrol scholarships to pursue master’s degrees in energy transition, sustainability, and climate change at UK universities.
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.
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.
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.
The six governors of Colombia’s oil-producing departments – Arauca, Boyacá, Casanare, Huila, Meta, and Santander – formally ratified Ricardo Rodríguez Yee as their nominee for the board’s eighth seat, filing a letter with the Finance Ministry on August 26.
Ecopetrol deployed education and infrastructure initiatives reaching more than 447,000 students and teachers across 47 municipalities in 17 departments between 2023 and 2025.
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.
Montería mayor Hugo Kerguelén García met with Naturgas president Luz Stella Murgas and Surtigas general manager Jackeline Puente Alvarado to coordinate strategic projects expanding natural gas access across the city’s urban and rural areas still lacking service.
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