The Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos announced the creation of the Grupo Estratégico de Aceleración de Proyectos de Gas (GEAPG), a temporary institutional coordination mechanism aimed at accelerating new natural gas volumes into the market as El Niño approaches.
President Abelardo De la Espriella’s arrival has revived hopes of restoring Colombia’s natural gas self-sufficiency through unconventional reservoir development, with industry experts pointing to substantial potential across eight basins beyond the long-discussed Middle Magdalena Valley, following more than 15 years of regulatory and environmental debate.
Arrow Exploration announced results from three new wells at its Icaco field on the Tapir Block in Colombia’s Llanos Basin, where the company holds a 50% beneficial interest, all drilled on time and under budget.
Petrobras and Ecopetrol confirmed a new natural gas discovery with the drilling of the Sandía-1 exploration well, located in the GUA-OFF-0 block in deep water offshore Colombia.
The situation Abelardo de la Espriella inherits on August 7th has a clear statistical signature, according to El País: crude oil production is at its lowest level in 16 years – a figure corroborated by Corficolombiana – the ANH signed zero new exploration and production contracts in four years, gas reserves collapsed to the point where Colombia now imports one third of what it consumes, and the sector has posted nine consecutive quarters of declining performance.
The incoming De la Espriella government has made enabling unconventional hydrocarbon extraction one of its most explicit energy policy commitments and the outgoing Petro government has moved to make that path as legally difficult as possible with fewer than three weeks left in office.
The four-administration comparison that Valora Analitik assembled from ANH data provides the clearest single chart of what four years of Petro energy policy cost Colombia in upstream investment momentum: not a decline, not a slowdown, but a complete stop.
Luz Stella Murgas, president of the Colombian Natural Gas Association Naturgas, issued a sharp public warning on June 26 in response to the ANH’s IRR 2025 report, calling on the incoming De la Espriella administration to accelerate investment decisions and unblock stalled gas projects without delay.
The National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) finally released Colombia’s total oil and gas reserves figures for year-end 2025 last week. Contributor Tomás de la Calle looked at Colombia’s oil reserves over the past nine years and even looked back thirty years to assess performance.
Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) has failed to publish its annual Resources and Reserves Report (IRR) for 2025, more than 45 days after the legally mandated deadline of April 30.
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