Valora Analitik obtained a draft decree the De la Espriella government is preparing to regulate offshore oil and gas production, covering operations Ecopetrol develops directly, agreements with Ecopetrol and partners, or agreements with the Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH).
Ecopetrol board chairman Luis Felipe Henao will demand interim president Juan Carlos Hurtado’s irrevocable resignation at an extraordinary board meeting.
Ariel Corzo Díaz, an Ecopetrol worker and USO union member, filed an injunction (tutela) seeking to suspend the company’s general shareholders assembly, scheduled for September 15, arguing the board slate improperly reused January 2026’s internal union vote to place César Loza in the seventh workers’-representative board seat rather than reopening nomination and voting.
Enercer S.A. E.S.P. announced a natural gas service suspension Tuesday night across 11 municipalities in eastern Boyacá — Garagoa, Tenza, La Capilla, Sutatenza, Guateque, Miraflores, Zetaquira, Berbeo, Páez, San Eduardo, and Campohermoso.
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 shipped its first 2,100 tons of bulk solid sulfur from Reficar to international markets, marking the start of a monthly export cycle.
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.
All five senior managers in Ecopetrol’s Executive Vice Presidency for Energy Transition departed September 1, following the July 31 exit of the division’s chief, Bayron Triana — one day after Ricardo Roa’s own departure from the presidency.
Ecopetrol CFO Camilo Barco left the door open to eventually evaluating opportunities in Venezuela, even as the company keeps its immediate growth focus on markets where it already operates — Colombia, Brazil, the U.S. Permian, and nine other countries.
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.
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