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.
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.
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.
The Ministry of Mines and Energy reported that scheduled maintenance at the SPEC regasification terminal in Cartagena reached 79% completion as of the morning of August 2, with the ministry projecting 86% progress by midnight and full completion by midday August 3, followed by a cooling phase ahead of restart.
Minister Edwin Palma used the opening of the Foro de Gas 2026 in Bogotá on July 30 – the same day SPEC’s scheduled five-day maintenance began – to issue a formal government guarantee of continuous essential gas and electricity supply through August 3.
Colombia’s most consequential gas supply event of 2026 begins Thursday. SPEC confirmed its maintenance window runs July 30th to August 3rd, with the coordination process for the five-day closure having involved thermal generators, non-thermal terminal users, the FSRU operator, and energy sector authorities.
The Regasificadora del Pacífico (RDP) project in Guadalajara de Buga, Valle del Cauca has surpassed 80% construction completion and remains on track to enter commercial operations before year-end, then-Mines and Energy Minister Edwin Palma confirmed during a July 16 site visit.
Colombia’s natural gas supply picture has deteriorated sharply since the start of 2026.
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