(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 27.Oct.2018) — Throughout its history, the Caño Limón-Coveñas pipeline in Colombia has suffered an estimated 1,470 attacks and has been out of operation the equivalent of more than 10 years, according to figures from Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol.
Attacks against the oil infrastructure have hurt the country in two ways through the following: 1) destruction of the environment and 2) undermining the country’s finances to the tune of about $277.5 million, reported the daily El Espectador.
Colombian terrorist groups such as ELN continue to use dynamite attacks along the country’s main oil pipeline as a manner to pressure dialogue between them and government leaders, the daily reported.
To date in 2018, Caño Limón-Coveñas has suffered 76 attacks, some 13 less than in the same year ago period.
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