Colombia’s Senate is set to debate a new proposal, Bill 247 of 2025, that would overhaul the rules for importing and marketing natural gas.
Colombia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinEnergia) will launch a regulatory review aimed at cutting gas transportation costs by up to 50% on routes such as Bogotá–Cartagena, Minister Edwin Palma announced during a visit to Cesar.
Camilo Sánchez, president of Andesco and Head of the National Business Council, raised alarms over Colombia’s energy security while openly criticizing current gas import practices.
In January of 2023, I wrote an article entitled Don’t get me wrong critiquing a report by the Ministry of Energy proving that Colombia had lots of gas, enough to export in fact. How did that work out?
Colombia’s Energy and Mines Ministry (MinEnergia) confirmed that the country will face a 20% natural gas deficit by 2026, echoing warnings raised in Promigas’s latest sector report.
Promigas released the 26th edition of its flagship Natural Gas Sector Report, offering a detailed snapshot of the challenges, milestones, and opportunities facing Colombia’s gas industry.
With declining domestic gas output and renewed talk of imports from Venezuela, Mónica de Greiff, Chair of Ecopetrol’s (NYSE: EC) Board of Directors, drew a clear red line: U.S. sanctions determine what Colombia’s state oil company can and cannot do.
Colombia’s gas production continued to decline in July 2025, according to the latest report released by the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH). The update shows that gas output was the hardest hit, deepening concerns over the country’s energy balance.
Everyone in the industry worries about natural gas production falling because that means more imports and higher prices for gas users and for electricity users. So why does it continue to decline?
Colombia has revived a politically charged idea: importing natural gas from Venezuela before year-end.
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