Amazon oil spill in Ecuador was 6,300 barrels

QUITO: An oil spill caused by a ruptured pipeline in Ecuador's Amazon region leaked almost 6,300 barrels into an environmental reserve, according to information provided on Wednesday by the company that owns the conduit.

OCP said the recovered oil amounted to 84 percent of the total that leaked, which would mean around 6,300 barrels.OCP president Jorge Vugdelija said in a statement that the company was using people and machines to"collect traces of crude found in the river."Crude flowed into the Coca river, one of the largest in Ecuador's part of the Amazon and which serves as a water source for many riverbank communities, including indigenous ones.

The Cayambe-Coca national park is 4,000 square kilometres of mountains and rainforest in the Amazon basin sitting between 600 and 5,790 meters above sea level. The 485-kilometre-long pipeline straddles four provinces all the way to the Pacific coast in the west, transporting 160,000 barrels of oil a day from wells in the jungle.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

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