Decreto 0526 de 2026 has raised alarms in Cauca after the Compañía Energética de Occidente (CEO) warned the measure will alter the Fondo de Energía Social (FOES) and could push energy bills up by as much as 30% for roughly 178,000 users starting June 1, 2027.
Ecopetrol has taken action to have illegally copied information from roughly 15 companies within its business group removed from public access, working in coordination with the Fiscalía General de la Nación and the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MinTIC),
Parex Resources framed its second-quarter 2026 results around the strategic transformation from its Frontera acquisition rather than the quarter’s numbers alone.
Back for only a single day, Ricardo Roa delivered his farewell address as Ecopetrol president on July 30th, closing a tenure marked by controversy that now has him facing judicial scrutiny.
Ecopetrol raised its natural gas contribution to 97 GBTUd to help cover the deficit created by the scheduled maintenance of the SPEC LNG regasification plant, which ran from Thursday, July 30th to Monday, August 3rd.
The Ministry of Mines and Energy reported that scheduled maintenance at the SPEC regasification terminal in Cartagena reached 79% completion as of the morning of August 2, with the ministry projecting 86% progress by midnight and full completion by midday August 3, followed by a cooling phase ahead of restart.
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