The new head of Barranquilla’s chamber of commerce has put offshore oil and gas on his list of Caribbean resources to be explored and developed, though he named no block, volume or timeline.
Last week, Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella signed Directive 06, by which his government hopes to expedite the prior consultation process especially for high-priority energy projects like Sirius. Here we go deeper into the detail. Somehow, this all sounds terribly familiar.
President Abelardo de la Espriella has issued a directive that reshapes how Colombia handles prior consultation with ethnic communities, replacing three earlier presidential directives.
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) warns that most of the industry’s largest producers face shrinking volumes over the next 15 years.
The mining and energy sector’s share of Colombia’s corporate income tax fell from 36.2% in 2012 to 6.3% in 2025, according to figures presented at an ANIF–CREE seminar titled “Energy to return to growth.”
Aquiles Mercado argues in an El Heraldo column that Colombia’s energy transition should be treated as a financing problem, not mainly a moral or environmental one.
Colombia’s hydrocarbons agency (ANH) says it will work directly with operators to remove the obstacles that limit new gas volumes reaching the market in the short and medium term.
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.
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