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Colombia’s government projects royalties income of CoP$27.54T for 2027-2028, 11% below the CoP$30.96T of the current biennium.

Interior Minister Rodrigo Lara has presented a plan to speed up Colombia’s prior consultation process, the community consultations required before many energy, mining, and infrastructure projects can proceed.

Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) has suspended for six months the telemetry obligations it imposed on oil and gas producers, two weeks after convening operators to review how the rollout was going.

Colombia’s Environment Minister Fabio Arjona announced the government is revoking Decree 973 of 2026 and will build a new regulatory framework for the country’s carbon markets, a reversal he framed as necessary to salvage the market’s credibility.

Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) used the XXIII ACIPET Petroleum, Gas and Energy Congress in Bucaramanga to lay out both the scale of the country’s exploration slowdown and its plan to reverse it.

Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) convened operators on September 15^th to review progress and challenges in implementing the telemetry mandate set out in Resolution 0651 of August 2025.

Vice Minister of Energy Armando Cuello said the government has not ruled out eventually raising diesel prices, arguing the current subsidy is unsustainable.

Colombia’s mining and energy sector has gone from generating 36.2% of corporate income tax revenue in 2012 to just 6.3% in 2025, a collapse that ANIF and the Colombian Energy Roundtable (CREE) warn is both a fiscal and an energy-security problem.

The Colombian Association of Petroleum Engineers (Acipet) laid out a formal three-proposal package for the government at its Congress on Oil, Gas and Energy in Bucaramanga.

Colombia risks “dismantling, by omission, its own growth engine,” warns Álvaro J. Rodríguez, partner at Posse Herrera Ruiz, even as Brent crude climbs back above US$100/bl on renewed Middle East tension.