Colombia: Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline bombed, shut down

LOS ANGELES, June 24 — Colombia’s 780-km Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline was shut down after guerrillas of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) dynamited it in two places in the northeastern provinces of Arauca and Norte de Santander.

The oil pipeline, which has a capacity of 240,000 b/d, normally transports about 100,000 b/d to the Caribbean seaport of Covenas from the Cano Limon fields operated by Occidental Petroleum in the eastern Colombian province of Arauca.

The attacks this month and in late April coincided with announcements concerning stepped up exploration and production from Colombia’s oil fields.