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...
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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 organizations that oppose the Colombian government. The National Liberation Army (Colombia), which has traditionally been involved in such attacks, charged in a communique that "in our country, energy policy does not prioritize investment (in Colombia) but rather exploitation and consumption that sacrifices future generations." Together with the FARC, they have repeatedly sabotaged and exploded sections of the pipeline.
The Colombian government has militarized the area in response. For several years a security tax was imposed on oil producers...
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