Fonpet, Colombia's National Pension Plan, Investigates Possibility of Investing in Ecopetrol S.A.

Óscar Iván Zuluaga, Colombia's Treasury and Public Credit Secretary, told reporters that Colombia's Fondo Nacional de Pensiones de las Entidades Territoriales (Fonpet), was investigating the possibility of investing in, Ecopetrol S.A. (NYSE:EC), the country's partially state-owned oil company.