Who owns Ocensa?
Ocensa is owned by Ecopetrol (Colombia, NYSE: EC).[1]
Ecopetrol owns 72.65% of Ocensa rather than all of it.
Evidence: Ecopetrol S.A. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-30, SEC EDGAR, 30 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Ecopetrol S.A. (72.65% stake) verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇴 Colombia
- Origin
- 🇨🇴 Colombia
- Category
- Energy › Oil & gas › Pipelines & midstream
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: EC
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Ocensa
Oleoducto Central S.A. (Ocensa) is a Colombian crude pipeline company that Ecopetrol's 2025 Form 20-F lists as a majority-held subsidiary with 72.65 percent ownership and voting power.
What Ecopetrol's annual report says about Ocensa
Sentences about Ocensa from Ecopetrol's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
As a result of this transaction, Ocensa acquired all assets, property and rights of Ocensa Ductos S.A.S., which was dissolved without liquidation, thereby streamlining the corporate structure and strengthening Ocensa's direct ownership interest in Oleoducto de Colombia S.A., in alignment with the Ecopetrol Group's strategy for the transport and logistics segment.
Table 37 Volumes of Crude Oil and Refined Products Transported For the year ended December 31, 2025 2024 2023 (Thousand bpd) Crude oil transport (1) 804.1 815.2 807.0 Refined products transport (2) 298.3 303.5 305.9 Total 1,102.4 1,118.7 1,112.9 (1) The crude oil transported volumes correspond to the following systems: Ocensa Segment 3, ODC, Vasconia-Galan, Ayacucho-Galan, Ayacucho-Cove as and Trasandino Pipeline.
OCLC Ayacucho Cove as L24": 100 mbd without DRA (2) Ocensa has four segments with different capacities. 745 mbd refers to the capacity of segment two (El Porvenir-Vasconia).
How often Ecopetrol names Ocensa in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Ocensa
Where Ocensa sits in Ecopetrol
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Ecopetrol
Ecopetrol controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in energy.
Also in energy
Other brands in pipelines & midstream, and who owns them
The 35 brands in pipelines & midstream on Brandtree belong to 21 owners. The largest is Energy Transfer, with 4; Ecopetrol has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Dakota Access Pipeline | Energy Transfer | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dixie Pipeline | Enterprise Products | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Basin Pipeline | Plains All American | 🇺🇸 United States |
| MountainWest | Williams | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Corpus Christi LNG | Cheniere | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Enbridge Mainline System | Enbridge | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Columbia Pipeline Group | TC Energy | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Aris Water Solutions | Western Midstream | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Ecopetrol
Ecopetrol is a state-owned company headquartered in Colombia. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: EC.
Ecopetrol's 2025 Form 20-F says the Colombian Nation holds 88.49 percent of its shares through the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit and that 11.51 percent trades on the Colombian and New York exchanges. It lists Reficar, Cenit and Esenttia as 100 percent subsidiaries, ISA at 51.4 percent and Ocensa at 72.65 percent. The 20-F also reports a 2026 agreement to buy a stake in Brazil's Brava Energia.
🇨🇴 Ocensa and other Colombian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 99 brands that began in Colombia. 10 of them (10%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Ocensa is not one of them.
- Terpel — Terpel 🇨🇴
- Activade — Quala 🇨🇴
- Agua Cristal — Postobón 🇨🇴
- Aguila — AB InBev 🇧🇪
- Airplan — ASUR 🇲🇽
- Almendra Tropical — CasaLuker 🇨🇴
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Ocensa?
The parent company of Ocensa is Ecopetrol, a state-owned company headquartered in Colombia.
Is Ocensa Colombian?
Yes. Ocensa originated in Colombia and its owner, Ecopetrol, is also headquartered in Colombia.
Is Ocensa still owned by Ecopetrol?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Ocensa is still owned by Ecopetrol (72.65% stake). The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Ecopetrol S.A. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-30 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 30 April 2026; retrieved 5 October 2026.
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