2024-06-29 09:35:34
PRESENT
The corporate Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP) Ecuador suspended the operation of the pipeline via which oil is transported on June 17, 2024. The measure was taken preventively within the face of the advance of regressive erosion within the Quijos (Coca) River, the agency reported in an announcement.
OCP Ecuador talked about that this choice was made as a result of intense rains that occurred within the nation, specifically, within the province of Napo. This case “considerably accelerated the erosion of the Quijos River,” mentioned the non-public agency.
As well as, the non-public firm – accountable for the Heavy Crude Oil Pipeline – resolved to declare the determine of drive majeure within the occasion of any attainable influence {that a} part of this infrastructure may have, positioned within the Gonzalo Díaz de Pineda parish, El Chaco canton, within the province from Napo.
This measure concerned suspending operations and shutting valves as a precaution. This could forestall a attainable oil spill within the occasion of a rupture as a result of advance of regressive erosion.
By way of this pipeline, 160,000 barrels of oil per day are transported from the Amazon to Esmeraldas.