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.
The Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos issued a categorical clarification addressing what it called imprecise claims circulating about hydrocarbons activity in Boyacá and Cundinamarca, confirming that the E&P Muisca contract has conducted no exploration or production activity since 2014…
Ecopetrol and Petrobras marked a milestone in their pre-production social commitments for the Sirius offshore project on July 23, formally delivering piped natural gas connections to 1,500 families in Riohacha, Manaure, and Dibulla, alongside 1,500 new stoves distributed free of charge to guarantee immediate use of the service.
Three rural communities in Cartagena’s northern zone — Arroyo de Piedra, Arroyo Grande, and Arroyo de las Canoas — will receive piped natural gas service for the first time in their history, after Mayor Dumek Turbay Paz confirmed on July 6 that the Cartagena district government has secured the necessary resources through the Sistema General de Regalías.
The Colombian Oil and Gas Association (ACP) issued a formal warning on July 1 that a work stoppage at Puerto Gaitán, Meta — now exceeding 25 days — is causing escalating damage to employment, regional economic activity, contractor supply chains, and the execution of strategic infrastructure projects across the hydrocarbons sector.
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