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Calamarí LNG and SPEC LNG announced they’ve received their 200th liquefied natural gas cargo from Trinidad and Tobago, bringing cumulative imports to 12.8 million cubic meters – equivalent to 265 TBTU injected into the National Transport System – at a moment when El Niño’s impacts are threatening electricity supply reliability.

The national government approved a modification to SPEC LNG’s environmental license in Cartagena, adding 58 mmcfd of natural gas capacity to strengthen the country’s supply.

Nearly two weeks after Colombia’s August 10 earthquake, natural gas reconnection remains incomplete across the hardest-hit regions, with roughly 10,100 users still without service as of August 14, according to Naturgas president Luz Stella Murgas, speaking from the ANDI Congress in Cartagena.

NG Energy International reported 2Q26 natural gas and NGL sales of US$10.8 million, up 14% from Q1 and up 24% year-over-year on a YTD basis, with net production of 14,222 mcfd, up 15% quarter-over-quarter.

Colombia’s natural gas production fell 12.9% year-on-year in May 2026, to 1,129 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) from 1,296 mmcfd in May 2025, with the decline attributed to Casanare, Sucre, Boyacá, and Córdoba.

Cerro Matoso, Colombia’s ferronickel producer in Córdoba, cut its operations 50% indefinitely as of August 4, after Canacol Energy continued restricting gas deliveries to below 4,000 MBTUD — less than a quarter of the contracted volume.

By now you must know that we made it through the SPEC maintenance window without regulated customers noticing anything and no power blackouts. If we hadn’t, you certainly would have heard about it.

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.

Deutsche Bank’s assessment of a fast-developing El Niño episode – potentially among the six most intense since 1870 – named Colombia as Latin America’s most exposed economy, projecting the country’s price index could rise roughly 1.4 percentage points before year-end, the largest inflationary impact in the region alongside Peru’s 1.1 points.

Decreto 0526 de 2026 has raised alarms in Cauca after the Compañía Energética de Occidente (CEO) warned the measure will alter the Fondo de Energía Social (FOES) and could push energy bills up by as much as 30% for roughly 178,000 users starting June 1, 2027.