COLOMBIA'S MAIN OIL PIPELINE ATTACKED
State-run oil company Ecopetrol said
Colombia's main oil pipeline was bombed again and pumping of
170,000 barrels per day was suspended.
    A spokeswoman for the company said that the early morning
dynamite attack was the 31st in the last nine months on the
Cano Limon-Covenas pipeline, which links Colombia's biggest
oilfied at Cravo Norte to the Caribbean.
    She said about 2,000 barrels of crude were spilled and
could not indicate when pumping would resume. The attack was
near Magangue in northeastern Bolivar province.
    Ecopetrol is exploiting Cravo Norte in association with
Occidental Petroleum Corp <OXY> and Shell Petroleum N.V., a
unit of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group <RD> <ST>.
    Ecopetrol said in a communique that bombings since last
July led to a loss of more than 110,000 barrels of crude, or
the equivalent of 10 mln dlrs.
 Reuter
