Speaking at the National Municipalities Congress in Cartagena on March 13, 2026, the deputy director of Colombia’s General Royalties System (SGR), Rubin Ariel Huffington Rodríguez, presented the Petro government’s royalties investment record, claiming CoP$46T mobilized across 13,127 approved projects since August 2022.
With Colombia’s presidential election approaching, the country’s energy policy has emerged as one of the sharpest lines of division among the leading candidates — with the opposition right promising an immediate reversal of the Petro-era hydrocarbon moratorium and the ruling coalition’s candidate signaling continuity in an energy transition that keeps extractive sectors alive but conditions them on environmental and social limits.
Energy and Mines Minister Edwin Palma used his appearance at the Contraloría General de la República’s forum on energy supply and storage on March 18, 2026 to frame the energy transition not as a Petro-government initiative but as a multi-administration policy commitment that should survive electoral cycles.
Colombia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy has confirmed a high-level meeting with U.S. government officials to advance an OFAC license that would allow Ecopetrol and ISA to reactivate bilateral energy projects with Venezuela.
The Petro government has formally ended gasoline subsidies paid through the national budget, while simultaneously defending an ongoing cycle of pump price reductions now complicated by a sharp spike in international crude prices driven by Middle East conflict.
A high-level Colombian delegation traveled to the Palacio de Miraflores in Caracas on March 14 after a planned border summit between President Gustavo Petro and Venezuelan acting president Delcy Rodríguez was cancelled for force majeure.
Colombia’s OCAD Paz approved 97 projects totaling CoP$1.91T for the country’s 16 PDET subregions under the second call of the 2025-2026 biennium. The initiatives will be financed through Peace Allocation resources from royalties (SGR) and were endorsed during session 86 held at the National Planning Department.
Colombia’s Superintendent of Public Services (SuperServicios) has launched an investigation into “pure commercializers” of natural gas—intermediaries who purchase and resell gas in the secondary market without serving end users—amid concerns that excessive intermediation is driving up residential and commercial tariffs.
The Departamento Nacional de Planeación (DNP) conducted a technical tour of three strategic works funded by royalty resources in Santander that generate direct community benefits.
The Colombian government ordered the refund of over CoP$150B to natural gas users for overcharges in the transport component of tariffs. Gas transporters TGI, Promigas, and three other companies immediately rejected the order, denying any improper charges and threatening legal action.
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