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Ecuador’s Main Oil Pipeline Restarts, Revealing Deeper Economic Risks
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Ecuador’s Main Oil Pipeline Restarts, Revealing Deeper Economic Risks
Ecuador’s OCP heavy crude pipeline started pumping again on July 7, 2025, after a week-long shutdown caused by severe erosion along the Loco River in the Amazon. The company built a temporary bypass to restore the flow, ending a suspension that began July 1 as a safety measure against further damage from heavy rains. This […]
From 08:26 this Monday, July 7, 2025, the transportation of crude oil through the oil pipeline (OCP) was restarted.
The shutdown of the pipelines, essential for transporting crude oil from the Amazon to Esmeraldas, forced the progressive closure of hundreds of oil wells, according to data from the Hydrocarbon Regulation and Control Agency (ARCH). The post Oil production of Ecuador falls 69% by suspension of operations in pipelines appeared first on El Diario.
Only a few hours before the reactivation of the OCP on Monday. A new variant is built for the pipeline.
The OCP pipeline suspended the pumping of crude oil last week in a preventive manner in the face of the threat of the natural phenomenon
Ecuador's Heavy Crude Oil Pipeline (CPO) restarted oil pumping, suspended on Tuesday in a preventive manner, due to the intense rains that caused the "sudden advance" of the retrogressive erosion of the Loco River, which forced the construction of a variant ('bypass'). OCP Ecuador reported that at 8:26 local time (13:26 GMT) this Monday the transportation of crude oil was restarted, after completing the construction work of the variant and carry…
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