Caño Limón

Caño Limón is an oil field in the municipalities of Arauca and Arauquita in Arauca Department, Colombia, on the border of Venezuela. It is the common name for the Caño Limón-Coveñas pipeline which travels 780 kilometers to Coveñas on Colombia's Caribbean coastline. It is jointly owned by the state oil firm Empresa de Petroleos de Colombia, or Ecopetrol, and U.S. company Occidental Petroleum Inc. The pipeline has often been attacked by guerrilla o... more

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