Ecopetrol in spill cleanup after pipeline attack
Colombia Ecopetrol Colombia pipeline spills
The incident occurred in the Cubará municipality of the Boyacá province, which has seen multiple bombings of the 220,000-bopd pipeline this month. The pipeline was not operational at the time of the attack.
Ecopetrol has not publicly named the assailants, but military sources have said members of the guerrilla National Liberation Army are behind the bombings.
This attack is the 84th to take place this year, which has seen the highest number of incidents since 2001 when the Caño Limón pipeline was bombed 166 times, Argus reported.
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