Colombia: Ecopetrol Pipeline Bombing Spills More Oil into Colombian River

Jun 22, 2015 | Reuters
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Crude oil has spilled into another Colombian river, state-run oil company Ecopetrol said on Monday, in the latest of a slew of bomb attacks on the company's pipelines that the army has blamed on leftist rebel groups. The company said it had suspended pumping of crude through the 300-km (186-mile) Transandino pipeline after a bomb ruptured a stretch of the line near the Pacific Coast, causing crude to gush into a river at high pressure. Ecopetrol said it has deployed booms to try to recover the crude and prevent it reaching an inlet downstream from which water supplies are drawn.