Attack: Colombia's Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline closed due to attack
Colombia pipeline closed after attack
Colombia's Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline has been closed by rebel bomb attacks carried out on Saturday and Sunday, a source at state petroleum company Ecopetrol said.
"The pipeline has been paralysed by the two attacks," said an unnamed source in a Reuters report.
The pipeline, which has capacity to carry 225,000 barrels per day, was transporting an average of 96,000 bpd from Arauca province to the Caribbean coast.
The explosive was detonated by remote control by a group of rebels of the Farc (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), said Thomson Financial.
The military took control of the area today, to enable the pipeline, operated by Occidental Petroleum in partnership with state oil company Ecopetrol, to be repaired.