text: Mar 14, 2016, 17:22 ET
  BOGOTA, Colombia, March 14, 2016 /CNW/ -- Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) reports that on March 11 of 2016 through the X-STREAM trading system of the Colombian Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Valores de Colombia S.A.), the first bidding session was held for the second stage of the program to divest and sell 58,925,480 of Ecopetrol's shares of the company Empresa Interconexión Eléctrica S.A. E.S.P. The bidding session was declared void.
  The Equity Divestment Plan was approved by the National Government through Decree 1800 of 2015, and in developing the second stage Ecopetrol is authorized to hold up to three (3) additional bid procedures, at the time and in the manner indicated in the Notice of Start of the Second Stage.
  The documentation regarding the offer may be found on Ecopetrol's web page at www.ecopetrol.com.co at the link: