BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (By Ana Sanches, Editores Latin Petroleum, 9.Oct.2026, Words: 213) — EP Petroecuador lifted the force majeure declaration implemented earlier in the week to address the fire at Baeza station No. 4 of the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE). Operational conditions were restored and the pipeline’s crude oil transport capacity […]
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Petroecuador declares force majeure at SOTE after Baeza incident
CARACAS, VENEZUELA (By Piero Stewart, Editores Latin Petroleum, 3.Oct.2026, Words: 216) — EP Petroecuador is working to resume pumping operations on the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE) pipeline. This, after the state-owned company declared a force majeure event due to the fire at the Baeza pumping station. EP Petroecuador reported on 3 […]
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EP Petroecuador expands protection area of SOTE and Shushufindi-Quito pipeline [photo-journal]
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (By Ana Sanches, Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Oct.2025, Words: 395) — The execution of rockfill works at the Loco River outlet, the protection distance against erosion, was increased to 140m from 70m relative to the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE) and the Shushufindi-Quito pipeline. This intervention, led by state-owned EP […]
EP Petroecuador resumes SOTE operations in Ecuador
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Jul.2025, Words: 197) — EP Petroecuador completed construction of the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE) bypass in the Loco River area, Napo province, and immediately resumed safe pumping of crude oil. This intervention was one of the preventive measures EP Petroecuador took […]
EAI brief: MEM, EP Petroecuador works to protect SOTE and OCP
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Jul.2025, Words: 188) — Officials with Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) minister Guilhermo Ferreira, EP Petroecuador general manager Leonard Bruns and the OCP Ecuador president Jaime Bucheli reported on actions taken after incidents caused by the rains in Napo […]
EP Petroecuador declares force majeure, Ecuador declares emergency related to the SOTE
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 3.Jul.2025, Words: 264) — Officials with Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Mines minister Guilhermo Ferreira, EP Petroecuador general manager Leonard Bruns and OCP Ecuador president Jaime Bucheli participated in a media briefing in Quito to provide updates around actions being taken […]
Petroecuador reports SOTE break, says personnel on site at KM 86 performing control work
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Jun.2025, Words: 140) — State-owned EP Petroecuador reported a pipeline break along the El Reventador sector of the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE). Specialized technical personnel are on site at Kilometer 86 of the SOTE performing containment and control work after the rupture […]
Ecuador’s SOTE and products pipeline operating normal after earthquake
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Apr.2025) — Shipments of crude oil along the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE) are normal after technical inspections to the transport infrastructure were conducted. This, after an earthquake was recorded at 12:09pm on 25 Apr. 2025. Likewise, shipments along the Esmeraldas-Santo Domingo-Quito product […]
LatAmNRG heard: Mexico Pacific CEO to Woodside, Argentina energy balance
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Apr.2025, Words: 473) — LatAm and other NRG highlights, headlines and “heard on the street,” for the week ended 18 Apr. 2025 including coverage on Argentina, Ecuador, and Mexico as well as updates on Petronas, EP Petroecuador, AEEV, Woodside Energy and Mexico Pacific, […]
Ecuadorian governmental authorities visit Esmeraldas after heavy rains
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Mar.2025) — Authorities with Ecuador’s national government personally visited Esmeraldas after heavy rains there compromised an oil containment dam on the Caple River. The authorities visited the area to verify work carried out on-site and coordinate further actions for the remediation and […]
Ecuador’s deputy hydrocarbon minister says 90% of oil spilled in Cube retained
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Mar.2025) — Ecuador’s deputy minister of hydrocarbons Guillermo Ferreira completed an intense work schedule in Esmeraldas, where he verified the progress of the contingency plan implemented following the rupture of the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE) on 13 Mar. 2025. During his tour, Ferreira […]
EP Petroecuador declares force majeure after landslide impacts SOTE
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Mar.2025, Words: 326) — EP Petroecuador announced that through Resolution No. PETRO-PGG-2025-0014-RSL that force majeure has officially been declared for its operations. This, after a recent landslide impacted the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE) and caused a substantial crude oil spill. The emergency […]
EP PetroEcuador reports SOTE breakage, says oil exports ongoing
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Mar.2025) — Ecuador’s EP PetroEcuador said a contingency plan has been activated at km 431 of the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE) in the El Vergel sector in the province of Esmeraldas due to the breakage of the pipeline in the right of way […]
Ecuador’s SOTE Transported 104 MMbbls of Oriente Crude in 2024
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Jan.2025, Words: 95) — Ecuador’s Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE) transported 104,348,303.29 bbls of Oriente crude oil in 2024. This represented a 90.9% compliance with goals set out in EP PetroEcuador‘s annual operating plan. The SOTE is Ecuador’s main crude transportation system. It […]
NRGBriefs: Ecoanalitica Sees Venezuela’s Oil Rising Between 31%-91% in 2022
(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Apr.2022) — Energy briefs including Caracas-based Econanalitica is forecasting Venezuela’s oil production and oil income will grow in 2022 vs 2021 under three different scenarios; Argentina’s Economic Minister Martín Guzmán meeting with the Argentine Ambassador in Bolivia Ariel Basteiro to discuss issues related to a bilateral agenda […]
Ecuador Declares Force Majeure On All Oil Contracts
(Bloomberg, 13.Dec.2021) — Ecuador declared force majeure on all oil contracts, including exports and imports, as the threat of soil erosion forced the shutdown of the country’s two pipelines that transport crude across the Andes. The clause, which is invoked to remove liability from failing to honor contracts in the […]
LatAm Briefs: Lasso Wins Run-off, Ecuador Oil Output
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Apr.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Guillermo Lasso Mendoza winning Ecuador’s run-off election and Andean oil producer Ecuador pumping around 495,438 barrels per day of oil. Lasso Wins Run-off Election In Ecuador Guillermo Lasso Mendoza won the presidential run-off election on […]
EP PetroEcuador Continues With Preventive Pipeline Work
(Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Apr.2021) — One year after the rupture of the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE), the Shushufindi-Quito Products Pipeline, operated by EP PetroEcuador, and the Heavy Crude Oil Pipeline (OCP), operated by OCP Ecuador SA, state entity EP PetroEcuador continues with work to prevent and mitigate damages caused by […]
EP PetroEcuador Restarts Activities At SOTE
(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Oct.2020) — EP PetroEcuador restarted operations at the 360,000 barrel per day capacity Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE by its Spanish acronym) after completion of construction works on the fourth variant on the pipeline. The variant, of 735 meters in length, was installed at kilometer 95 + 400 […]
Ecuador’s Oil Output At 512,439 B/d: MERNNR
(Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Sep.2020) — South America’s Ecuador, formerly a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), announced production of crude oil reached 512,439 barrels per day on the first day of September 2020. Of the production, PetroAmazonas accounted for 410,104 b/d or 80% of total production while […]
Ecuador’s MERNNR Finally Lifts Force Majeure
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 10.May.2020) — Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources (MERNNR) on 9 May 2020 lifted the force majeure declared on 10 April declared due to breaks along the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE) and the Heavy Crude Oil Pipeline (OCP) caused by a nature event […]
Environmental Restoration Work Continues In Ecuador
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 1.May.2020) — Intervention activities continue at 40 defined sites in Ecuador, of which at least 220 focal points have been established to concentrate on environmental restoration actions along areas affected by oil spills on 7 April 2020 caused by natural ruptures of the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline […]
Ecuador Oil Flow Tumbles, Pipeline Repairs Advance
(Argus, 15.Apr.2020) — Ecuador’s oil production dwindled to just 68,000 b/d on 13 April in the wake of weather-related pipeline ruptures last week, forcing state-owned PetroEcuador to reprogram most crude exports into May. PetroEcuador said it has pushed 10 crude export loadings from April to May as it works to […]
Ecuador Oil Flow Falls, Pipeline Repairs Advance
(Argus, 15.Apr.2020) — Ecuador’s oil production dwindled to just 68,000 b/d on 13 April in the wake of weather-related pipeline ruptures last week, forcing state-owned PetroEcuador to reprogram most crude exports into May. PetroEcuador said it has pushed 10 crude export loadings from April to May as it works to […]
Ecuador Oil Spill In the Amazon
(AmazonWatch, 9.Apr.2020) — Ecuador’s state-run oil company, EP PETROECUADOR, reported the pipeline bursts of the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline (SOTE), the OCP (Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados-Heavy Crude Pipeline), and the Poliducto Shishufindi-Quito in an official statement issued April 7, 2020. The ruptures occurred as a result of a reduction in pipe pressure […]
EP PetroEcuador Says SOTE Halted Due To Sinking
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 7.Apr.2020) — EP PetroEcuador announced suspension of operations at the Sistema de Oleducto Transecuatoriano (SOTE) due to the sinking of a portion of the pipeline in a sector of San Rafael, located between the provinces of Napo and Sucumbíos. The TransEcuadorian Pipeline System, as it […]
EP PetroEcuador GM Visits Balao Maritime Terminal
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 11.Mar.2020) — EP PetroEcuador General Manager Pablo Flores supervised operations at the Esmeraldas Maritime Port and the Balao Maritime Terminal, which are part of the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE), and where the company carries out crude oil export activities essential for Ecuador’s economy. During the […]
IMO 2020 May Slow Ecuador Loan Repayment
(Argus, 30.Dec.2019) — Possibly narrower differentials for sour crudes — under pressure from looming emissions regulations — could slow Ecuador’s repayment of its oil-backed debt and limit availability for spot market exports in the first half of 2020. Ecuador produces heavy sour Napo and medium sour Oriente crudes. It owes […]
Ecuador Resumes Exports After Protests
(Reuters, 20.Oct.2019) — Ecuadorean state oil company Petroecuador said on Sunday it is resuming crude exports after protests this month against government austerity measures forced it to declare a force majeure. Ecuador on Oct 9 halted crude sales and shut a crucial state oil pipeline because at least 20 fields […]
Ecuador Halts SOTE Over Protests, Eyes Force Majeure
(Reuters, 9.Oct.2019) — Petroecuador halted operations of its Trans-Ecuadorean Pipeline System (SOTE) on Wednesday after anti-austerity protests choked off production from some oil fields it uses for stock, the energy ministry said on Wednesday. The state-run company’s pipeline, which normally transports 360,000 barrels per day to the Pacific Coast, was […]
Ecuador’s SOTE Halted On Low Oil Deliveries
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 9.Oct.2019) — Ecuador’s Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline System (SOTE) halted operations at 1pm on Oct. 9. The stoppage was due to the low delivery of crude oil resulting from suspension of operations at oil fields operated by state oil company Petroamazonas EP after being overrun by outside […]
SOTE Operations Reduced To 30% Of Capacity
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 9.Oct.2019) — Operations at the SOTE have been affected during protests in Ecuador and resultantly operations have been reduced to 30% of capacity, due to the low stock of crude oil delivered. The flow is currently minimal and does not allow the normal operation of […]