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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.

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.

Or the dominance of Ecopetrol in Colombian statistics means what it does pulls the national conclusions. In any event, 2025 was another weak year for exploration and discoveries. Sharp pencils and improved recovery saved ECP’s reserves from falling.

The Colombian stock market became briefly the best-performing bourse in the world on June 1, with the MSCI Colcap index surging around 6% in early trading after Abelardo de la Espriella topped the presidential first round with 43.7% of the vote, a margin well above what Wall Street consensus had expected.

Foreign direct investment in Colombia’s oil sector fell more than 7% year-on-year in Q1 2026, reaching US$589M against US$634M in the same period of 2025, according to Banco de la República data.

Colombia’s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG aka propane) sector is heading into a structural supply gap, and a new Cartagena terminal is positioning itself as the primary solution

Ecopetrol closed 2025 with a reserve replacement index of 1.21 – meaning it added 1.21 equivalent barrels to its proven reserves for every equivalent barrel it produced during the year. Against annual production of 248 million equivalent barrels, the company incorporated 300 million equivalent barrels of new proven reserves, a result the Asociación Colombiana de Ingenieros de Petróleos (Acipet) characterized as positive for the state oil company.

Colombia’s Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (Superindustria) has announced it is analyzing a request related to a business integration between Ecopetrol and Parex Resources Colombia, citing the need to assess the impact on free market competition.

Parex Resources Colombia used an article in El Espectador to mark its track record under Colombia’s Works for Taxes mechanism — the scheme that allows companies to redirect a portion of their income tax obligations directly into public infrastructure projects in historically underserved regions.

The Unión Sindical Obrera issued a communiqué on May 30 calling on Colombians — and oil and gas workers in particular — to vote in the presidential election with the country’s energy future as their primary consideration.