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Colombia says rebels bomb oil pipeline
02 May 2008 14:53:24 GMT
Source: Reuters
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BOGOTA, May 2 (Reuters) - Colombia's Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline has been paralyzed since a Tuesday night rebel bomb attack, state petroleum company Ecopetrol said on Friday.

The pipeline, which has a capacity to carry 225,000 barrels per day, was transporting an average of 93,000 bpd from Arauca province to the Caribbean coast.

Occidental Petroleum <OXY.N> shares output with Ecopetrol at the Cano Limon oil fields.

Pipeline bombings and other violence related to Colombia's four-decade-old war have declined under President Alvaro Uribe's U.S.-backed crackdown on the guerrillas.

The Tuesday night attack happened only hours after U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield visited Arauca to emphasize how security in the area had improved, due in part to billions of dollars in U.S. aid. (Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta, writing by Hugh Bronstein; Editing by Walter Bagley)
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