SUPERINTENDENCY OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE CLOSES THE INVESTIGATION INITIATED AGAINST ECOPETROL AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES CENIT AND OCENSA

BOGOTA, Nov. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) ("Ecopetrol" or the "Company") hereby informs that, by Resolution No. 88976 of 2026 (the "Resolution"), the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce of Colombia (Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio, or "SIC") notified the Company and its subsidiaries Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos S.A.S. ("CENIT") and Oleoducto Central S.A. ("OCENSA" and, together with Ecopetrol and CENIT, the "Ecopetrol Group") of the closure of the administrative investigation initiated in 2024. The Company disclosed the initiation of that investigation through this same channel in May 2024. The investigation sought to determine whether the Ecopetrol Group had violated the legal framework governing the protection of free economic competition, specifically the prohibition under Article 1 of Law 155 of 1959, in connection with the alleged steering of the contracting processes for helicopter services conducted between 2011 and 2023.