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Ecopetrol has taken action to have illegally copied information from roughly 15 companies within its business group removed from public access, working in coordination with the Fiscalía General de la Nación and the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MinTIC),

Back for only a single day, Ricardo Roa delivered his farewell address as Ecopetrol president on July 30^th, closing a tenure marked by controversy that now has him facing judicial scrutiny.

Ecopetrol raised its natural gas contribution to 97 GBTUd to help cover the deficit created by the scheduled maintenance of the SPEC LNG regasification plant, which ran from Thursday, July 30^th  to Monday, August 3^rd.

Vice president-elect José Manuel Restrepo delivered the incoming government’s clearest statement yet on Ecopetrol’s future, declaring that the new administration will pursue “a thorough transformation starting with the structural, strategic issue” at the state oil company.

Higher oil prices and solid operational performance will not automatically translate into stronger credit quality for Latin America’s state-owned oil companies, according to a Moody’s report.

According to persons close to president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, Valora Analitik reported on July 25, Joaquín Gutiérrez Caballero is the leading candidate to assume the presidency of Ecopetrol.

Ecopetrol filed three simultaneous material information disclosures on July 23rd, mapping the governance changes that will carry the state oil company through the remaining days of the Petro administration and position it for the incoming de la Espriella government.

Ecopetrol announced on July 22^nd that it has secured nine Contingency Supply Contracts making 81 GBTUD of natural gas available to the market to backstop supply during the SPEC LNG regasification terminal’s scheduled maintenance from July 30^th to August 3^rd.

If true, Ecopetrol’s leadership transition accelerated sharply on July 23^rd, with unconfirmed reports of two related developments simultaneously: Ricardo Roa’s official departure date confirmed as July 30^th, and a significant reshaping of the board that clears the path for the incoming de la Espriella government to restructure the company’s governance from day one.

So far, we see nothing on the Ecopetrol investor site confirming either of these stories.

The collective agreement signed between the USO and Ecopetrol has been fully disclosed and its most strategically significant feature is not any individual benefit but the duration of the contract itself.