Deutsche Bank and Corficolombiana both published assessments on June 12 framing the same basic question ahead of Colombia’s June 21 presidential runoff: what comes after the vote, and how durable will any initial market optimism prove to be?
Moody’s Ratings issued a sector-wide alert on Colombia’s energy and gas industry, warning that credit conditions for companies across the chain — generation, transmission, and distribution — will continue to deteriorate at least until the first half of 2027.
Colombia perforated 16 exploratory wells in the A2 and A3 categories between January and April 2026, one fewer than the 17 drilled in the same period of 2025 — a 5.9% decline that halts, at least provisionally, the momentum built during last year’s partial recovery.
Pacto Histórico presidential candidate Iván Cepeda used a June 10 interview on Caracol Radio’s 6AM W with Julio Sánchez Cristo to lay out his position on Ecopetrol, the energy transition, and the future of hydrocarbon policy under a possible Cepeda government.
Ecopetrol and Parex Resources donated firefighting equipment to the volunteer fire brigades of San Miguel and Valle del Guamuez municipalities in Putumayo on June 12, under the Acuerdo Empresarial Putumayo, a joint social investment mechanism the two companies operate in the department. The combined investment exceeded CoP$25M.
Colombia set a new record in the first week of June 2026, with imported gas reaching 32% of total national gas consumption — the highest share ever recorded in the country’s energy balance.
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