Aquiles Mercado opens this El Heraldo column with the Greek etymology of “periplo” (circumnavigation) to frame Colombia’s growing dependence on imported LNG as a genuine journey with real costs.
Some might hope that gas production improves since SPEC is reaching its capacity and no other LNG import facilities have come online. That’s not the case.
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.
Despite Colombia’s declining proven gas reserves, the country holds resources in its subsoil and Caribbean waters capable of guaranteeing supply and continuing to expand household connections, Naturgas president Luz Stella Murgas said in an interview.
Promigas added more than 122,000 new natural gas users during the second quarter of 2026, bringing the company to 7.6 million clients across its business lines.
ANH president Ernesto Forero visited Canacol Energy’s Estación Jobo in Sahagún, Córdoba, on August 27 to see the company’s gas operations firsthand and identify concrete sector needs for formulating actions to recover production.
Sirius, the offshore Caribbean gas project Colombia is counting on to restore natural gas self-sufficiency, faces a bottleneck from a single unresolved prior consultation with Taganga, an artisanal fishing community near Santa Marta, financial demands Ecopetrol has characterized in stark terms.
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.
Colombia’s reported natural gas production fell 8.36% year-on-year in July 2026, from 1,196 mmcfd to 1,096 mmcfd, extending a decline that has held in every month of 2026 so far.
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