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Last Friday Brent nearly closed at US$60 and in honor of that auspicious event, we decided to update our short- and long-term graphs.

Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) announced the consumption of extra gasoline in the last two months of 2020.

It should hardly be surprising that in a year where WTI went negative for a day and Brent was on a roller coaster, that Colombia’s benchmark crudes went on the same wild ride. We do not have data for Castilla but here is Vasconia.

Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) announced an improvement in gasoline quality throughout the country.

Fendipetróleo’s Juan Vélez, spoke about recent decisions of the Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission (CREG).

OK maybe the title is a little dramatic but I do not think that 2021 is any clearer – anymore free from fear about what might happen – than was 2020. And yet, decisions still have to be made, short-, medium- and long-term decisions, on the best information available.

Over the holidays, the Ministry of Energy announced plans to co-invest to bring propane to thousands of users in lower economic strata.

We said we would not be doing the Colombian Share Price Index analysis again because there were too few publicly-traded, Colombia-focused companies remaining to be meaningful. But Covid-19 changes everything and we could not resist a peek at what the topsy-turvy world of 2020 had done to our index.

The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinEnergia) announced fuel prices for December 2020. Here are the details.

The regulation to use propane for transportation vehicles on both land and water is ready, the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinEnergia) said.