Colombia Oil, Gas Reserves Drop Amid Petro Clean Energy Push
- Oil reserves fall to 7.5 years, gas reserves to 7.2 years
- Government has said report is key in determining energy policy
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Colombian natural gas reserves fell to the lowest since at least 2007 and oil reserves also dropped, putting pressure on President Gustavo Petro to rethink his ban on new fossil-fuel exploration.
Natural gas reserves dropped to the equivalent of 7.2 years of output at the end of last year, from 8 years in 2021, according to the National Hydrocarbons Agency. The Andean nation had 2.04 billion barrels of proven crude reserves, the equivalent of 7.5 years of output, down from 7.6 years of production in the previous assessment.