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Ecuador announced plans to increase tariffs for transporting Colombian crude oil through its OCP pipeline, escalating commercial tensions between the neighboring Andean nations. E&Ps operating in the Putumayo use the OCP to get their crude to export.

Promigas announced on December 23 a new advance in the Barranquilla-Ballena Bidirectionality Project by placing into operation, ahead of schedule, 20 mmcfd of additional natural gas transport capacity between the Caribbean coast and Colombia’s interior.

Transportadora de Gas Internacional (TGI), a Grupo Energía Bogotá subsidiary, signed a binding commercial agreement with Höegh Evi to establish a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) for a regasification plant in La Guajira, specifically at Ballena.

Colombia’s Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission (CREG) identified two priority regasification facilities—Ballena in La Guajira and one in Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca—as essential for meeting the country’s gas supply needs and controlling end-user tariffs.

Ecopetrol achieved a milestone by conducting its first petrochemical export through the Port of Buenaventura on December 1, 2025.

Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) secured a key milestone in its gas-supply strategy after Colombia’s environmental licensing agency, ANLA, approved the company’s plan to import natural gas through Cenit’s infrastructure in Coveñas.

Lately, Ecopetrol has talked about a third regas facility at Coveñas which makes (somewhat) more sense than its comical Buenaventura plans. Why would anyone but Rube Goldberg propose such a scheme? On second thought, maybe we don’t want to know why the NOC came up with them.

With Colombia facing a looming shortfall in natural gas starting in 2026, Transportadora de Gas Internacional (TGI), a subsidiary of Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB), unveiled a plan it says could prevent a full-blown energy crisis.

Coviandina, the concessionaire in charge of the Bogotá–Villavicencio highway, announced a contingency plan to address the closure of the key Llanos Road, blocked since last Saturday by massive landslides triggered by heavy rains.

Coviandina, the Bogotá–Villavicencio concessionaire, confirmed a total closure on the old Llanos road to carry out improvements between kilometer points K18+340 and K18+980.