The objective of this research is to extract oil from the microalgae obtained in the lagoon El Estanco, located in San Andrés de Sotavento, Colombia, using the modified Bligh & Dyer method, with two types of solvents For chloroform + methanol and hexane. The results obtained with solvent extraction chloroform + methanol provided the largest volume of extracted oil, a comparison with hexane.Keywords: Oil, Extraction, Microalgae.