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Geopark chair Sylvia Escovar’s thoughts about ECP’s CEO

Writing in Portafolio, Sylvia Escovar – former president of Terpel and current chair of the GeoPark board – published a pointed opinion piece framing the question of who leads Ecopetrol not as a personnel decision but as an institutional one with consequences for the entire country.

Friday, July 17th, 2026
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Hacienda’s fiscal framework documents a 15-year structural decline

Colombia’s Ministry of Finance published a detailed diagnosis of the hydrocarbon sector’s structural deterioration in its Medium-Term Fiscal Framework that frames the depth of the challenge facing the incoming De la Espriella administration.

Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
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Outgoing MinMinas Palma’s advice for incoming minister Arboleda

Outgoing Mines and Energy Minister Edwin Palma used his public response to the designation of María Nohemí Arboleda as incoming minister on July 14th to signal what he considers the most urgent near-term briefing she needs: the scheduled maintenance of the SPEC regasification terminal in Cartagena, Colombia’s sole LNG import gateway, set for July 30th to August 3rd.

Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
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De la Espriella inherits the gap in E&P contracts

De la Espriella inherits the gap in E&P contracts

The four-administration comparison that Valora Analitik assembled from ANH data provides the clearest single chart of what four years of Petro energy policy cost Colombia in upstream investment momentum: not a decline, not a slowdown, but a complete stop.

Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
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Semana maps the three simultaneous energy crises

A July 4th Semana analysis by its economics desk crystallizes the three converging energy emergencies that will define the de la Espriella administration’s first weeks: El Niño, the Canacol insolvency, and Air-e’s paralysis, each serious on its own, and compounding when combined.

Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
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De la Espriella names XM’s María Nohemí Arboleda as MinEnergia

President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella named María Nohemí Arboleda Arango as Minister of Mines and Energy on July 13, filling the one of the last major cabinet vacancies and the portfolio most consequential for Colombia’s energy supply crisis.

Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
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Outgoing MinMinas criticizes suspension of handover process

The Ministry of Mines and Energy used its July 9 four-year management balance to deliver a pointed political message to the incoming De la Espriella administration: suspending the energy sector transition handover process at the precise moment Colombia is preparing for an El Niño episode is, in the ministry’s words, “profoundly irresponsible.”

Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
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The UPME is Dead, Long Live the UPME! Or How Colombia Planned Its Way Out of Gas Self-Sufficiency

Tomás de la Calle is back, this time looking at the country’s declining gas reserves and wondering about the UPME’s role in getting us to here … and getting us back to self-sufficiency.

Monday, July 13th, 2026
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De la Espriella reveals eleven confirmed ministers but not Mines and Energy

President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella has confirmed ten of his ministers with just under a month until his August 7th inauguration, in a process that Cambio Colombia tracked across multiple  rounds of announcements.

Thursday, July 9th, 2026
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Naturgas president Murgas hands incoming government a five-point gas agenda

Luz Stella Murgas, president of the natural gas industry association Naturgas, used a detailed interview published in El Tiempo on July 6 to map what she called a “critical juncture” in the Colombian gas sector and to set out the five priorities she says cannot wait beyond the first hundred days of the De la Espriella administration.

Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
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