The National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) revealed he official reserve balance corresponding to the closing 2025. The report shows a contrasted panorama for the country’s energy sector.
While the natural gas recorded a double-digit reduction in their proven reserveshe oil managed to cushion the international impact and slightly increase your self-sufficiency.
The balance of natural gas
The proven natural gas reserves of the country recorded a sharp drop of 16.8 percent as of December 31, 2025, after going from 2,064 cubic gigafeet reported in 2024 to 1,717 cubic gigafts last year.
Despite this reduction in physical volumethe reserves/production ratio remained stableguaranteeing a 5.9 year lifespan at the end of 2025.
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Although the entity did not provide further specific details about the exclusive behavior of gas last year, it did highlight the projections and the accumulated of recent years.
For example, he highlighted that since 2018 the country achieved a accumulated incorporation of 521 cubic gigafoot of natural gas.
Furthermore, there was recorded a growth in contingent resourceswhich are discovered volumes, potentially recoverable once technical, economic or regulatory contingencies have been overcome.
These resources reached 10,540 cubic gigafts in category 3Cwith a significant concentration in areas off coast of the Colombian Caribbeanconsidered among the main bets for reinforce the national energy supply in the coming years.
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The ANH assured that the discoveries and resources identified in it Colombian Caribbean strengthen growth prospects of the reserves in the short and medium term.
Oil: the useful life of reserves increases
On the oil side, the proven reserves registered a slight drop of 0.73 percentstanding in 2,020 million barrels by the end of 2025. This figure represents 15 million barrels less compared to the 2,035 million that the reserves totaled in 2024.
However, the self-sufficiency of these reserves went from 7.2 years in 2024 to 7.4 years in 2025; an increase driven by the fall in national oil production.
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During 2025 257 million barrels were added of oil to proven reserves, a smaller number compared to the 298 million barrels recorded the previous year.
In addition, between 2018 and 2025 HE incorporated a total of 2,054 million barrels, exceeding the extracted volume in that same period (1,992 million barrels).
Of that total, the enhanced recovery projects and incremental production They contributed 436 million barrels (22 percent of what was incorporated).
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“The report shows that Colombia has a solid base of energy resources and that the measures adopted to optimize reservation and resource management are giving concrete results for the security and energy sovereignty of the country“, assured the ANH.
Future royalties for the regions
Finally, the report details the tax impact of these resources. The current valuation of the proven reserves will allow projecting income close to the 36 billion pesos in future royaltiesmoney that will go to finance social investment, infrastructure and development both in producing and non-producing regions.
This projection complements the recent tax results of the sector, which indicate that between August 2022 and December 2025 the country collected 29.6 billion pesos in royalties.
