MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol stopped pumping oil through the Cano Limon Covenas pipeline after a suspected attack carried out by the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebel group.
According to an Ecopetrol statement cited by Diario Gestion on Wednesday, the affected section of the pipeline is located in Saravena, a town in Colombia’s Arauca Department bordering Venezuela.
Last month, the bombing of the Cano Limon Covenas pipeline led to an oil spill into the Bojaba river near the border with Venezuela. The attack was also blamed on ELN.
The Cano Limon Covenas pipeline is Colombia’s largest and has the capacity to transport over 200,000 barrels of crude a day.
The Cano Limon oil fields account for 30 percent of the Colombian oil output.
The ELN is the second-largest rebel group in Colombia after FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).
