Ecopetrol, formerly known as Empresa Colombiana de Petróleos S.A. is the largest and primary petroleum company in Colombia. It was founded in 1951.

Ecopetrol S.A. carries out hydrocarbon exploration activities in 32 blocks of Colombian territory directly. In other 15 blocks the company participates in risk with other companies. One of these last blocks is the Tayrona block, located offshore in the Colombian Caribbean. 

 

Mission

We find and converted energy sources into value for our customers and shareholders, ensuring the integrity of peoples, the safety of processes and protection of the environment, contributing to the welfare of the areas where we work, by means of committed personnel who seek excellence, integral development and the development of long-term relations with interested parties.

 

Ecopetrol S.A. is responsible for the total production of crude oil and gas in the country obtained by means of direct and associated operations.

The operation includes the extraction, collection, treatment, storage and pumping or compression of hydrocarbons.

With operations throughout the national territory, Ecopetrol has four management divisions to handle the operation of 163 production fields.

 

Ecopetrol S.A. guarantees the transportation and availability of the different hydrocarbons for refining, exports or consumption for country and investors by means of its 8.500-kilometer network of pipelines that go from the production centers to the refineries and ports in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

It has 53 stations pumping crude oil and products throughout the Colombian geography, in addition to its storage centers.

The Company ensures surplus capacity in the main oil transportation systems, which is an economic advantage in the event of a commercial hydrocarbon discovery.