According to the newspaper El Tiempo, Petro had told that newspaper as a candidate that on the first day of his government, on August 8, he would suspend the contracting of oil exploration, that is, the search for new deposits for future exploitation. But, now, he has explained that it will not be immediate.
“That is a transition, it is gradual. The word transition implies gradualness. They wanted to show that this was for August 8, no, not that. I had downvotes stemming from that belief. No, it's a transition. It is not that we stop exploring because there are about 180 exploration contracts that nobody knows if they will bear fruit or not, but there are years of exploration ahead in Colombia,” said the president-elect in an interview with Cambio magazine
https://www.infobae.com/america/colombia/2022/06/27/gustavo-petro-aclara-la-transicion-energetica-y-la-explotacion-petrolera-no-sera-desde-el-8-de-agosto/