Colombia’s Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission (CREG) issued two key resolutions in late November 2025 to address the country’s natural gas supply constraints and facilitate imported gas contracting. The measures aim to eliminate barriers that limit or discourage imported gas procurement while enabling short-term transportation solutions.
The Colombian Association of Geologists and Geophysicists of Energy (ACGGP) presented a comprehensive public policy proposal aimed at strengthening the country’s energy security through scientific evidence, increased exploration, enhanced state technical capacity, and improved territorial engagement models.
The latest Invamer poll for Colombia’s 2026 presidential elections reveals Senator Iván Cepeda leading the field with 31.9% voting intention, followed by lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella at 18.2% and former Antioquia governor Sergio Fajardo with 8.5%. The survey, conducted for Noticias Caracol and Blu Radio between November 15-27, 2025, polled 3,800 people across 148 municipalities with a 1.81% margin of error.
Latin America enters a new phase of oil industry reconfiguration in 2026, with some countries facing progressive reserve depletion while others consolidate expansion in production, exports, and capital market access.
The latest “COP” global conference ended without a declaration on fossil fuels. A number of countries, led by Colombia, pushed for an energy transition “roadmap” to abandon these, but resistance, mostly from producer countries, kept that from making the final version.
Colombia’s ongoing fiscal crisis is expected to worsen in 2026 due to a sharp drop in the profits of Ecopetrol, the nation’s most important company. The urgency for cash is so significant that the current administration has introduced a third tax reform bill to Congress.
Fitch Ratings issued a stark warning for Colombia’s oil and gas sector: the country’s proven reserves now have a useful life of less than seven years, a decline that has accelerated since 2021.
Colombia’s energy sector is once again warning that the country’s heavy tax load is eroding competitiveness and slowing investment.
Colombia’s announcement at COP30 that it would declare the entire Amazon biome a Renewable Natural Resources Reserve, effectively banning new large-scale mining and hydrocarbons activity, was intended as a bold environmental milestone.
Colombia’s long-awaited offshore gas project, Sirius, is steadily moving through its licensing stages, yet the country’s widening supply gap is prompting experts to call for an interim solution: using fracking to regain self-sufficiency while the offshore field comes online.
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