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Colombia Oil Pipeline, known locally as Oleoducto de Colombia or by its Spanish initials ODC, is an oil pipeline in Colombia.[1]
Location
The pipeline runs from Vasconia Station (in Boyacá department) to the Coveñas export station (Sucre department), passing en route through La Trampa pump station in Caucasia (Antioquia department).[2]
Project Details
- Operator: Oleoducto de Colombia S.A. (ODC)[3]
- Owner: Cenit SAS (51.28%)[4][5], Hocol SA (21.72%)[4], Emerald Energy, Perenco, Frontera Energy, Repsol[6][7]
- Parent Company: Ecopetrol (73%)[8], Emerald Energy, Perenco, Frontera Energy, Repsol[6][7]
- Current capacity: 236,000 barrels per day[6][9][10]
- Length: 483 kilometers[3][8][11][12]
- Diameter: 24 inches[12]
- Status: Operating
- Start Year: 1992[13]
Background
The 483-kilometer Oleoducto de Colombia (ODC) parallels the Oleoducto Ocensa from the Magdalena valley to Coveñas.[14] Construction began in 1990, and the pipeline initiated commercial operations in July 1992.[13] Ecopetrol is the pipeline's majority owner, with a 73% stake as of March 2020[15]; minority owners include China’s Emerald Energy, France’s Perenco, Canada’s Frontera Energy and Spain’s Repsol.[6][7]
In its first decade of operation, the pipeline's capacity was stated to be 150,000 bpd.[16] As of August 2019 the pipeline's capacity was reported to be 236,000 bpd, and Oleoducto de Colombia's president Natalia De la Calle said that the company was prepared to increase pipeline capacity if necessary to accommodate new supplies from proposed future fracking operations.[6][7] In its 2021 SEC filing, majority owner Ecopetrol SA listed the pipeline's capacity at 223,000 bpd[8], slightly lower than the 236,000 bpd reported in its 2020 SEC filing[9] and in a 2017 report from Colombia's Ministry of Mines and Energy.[3]
Environmental and community impact
During the pipeline's construction, major occurrences of soil erosion occurred coupled with significant loss of crops for peasants along the pipeline's path. Over 150 water sources were destroyed in the Zaragoza section of the pipeline. Families along the pipeline's route have sought compensation from ODC for these damages.[17]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ Colombia Oil Pipeline, A Barrel Full, accessed September 2017
- ↑ "Recorrido del oleoducto". Oleoducto de Colombia. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "D&E-CRUDOS-MME-481-2017 (p 46)" (PDF). Ministerio de Minas y Energía. December 18, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Special Group Report 2021 - Integrated Sustainable Management Report (p 31)" (PDF). Ecopetrol SA. March 22, 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Mapa de infraestructura petrolera en Colombia" (PDF). Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Colombia pipeline ready to transport more crude if fracking approved: company". Reuters. August 21, 2019.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 "Oleoducto de Colombia se declara listo para transportar más petróleo si se aprueba fracking". América Economía. August 21, 2019.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Ecopetrol S.A. 2021 Form 20-F (pp 48, 65, 99)". US Securities & Exchange Commission. April 25, 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Ecopetrol S.A. 2020 Form 20-F (p 50)". US Securities & Exchange Commission. April 8, 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Annual Information Form for the Year Ended December 31, 2022 (p 17)" (PDF). Frontera Energy. March 1, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Quiénes Somos". Oleoducto de Colombia. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Manual del Transportador: Cláusula Tercera, Descripción General del Oleoducto (p 15)" (PDF). Oleoducto de Colombia S.A. November 18, 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Historia". Oleoducto de Colombia. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ An Energy Overview of Colombia, Fossil Energy International, accessed October 2017
- ↑ "Subsidiaries of Ecopetrol S.A." United States Securities and Exchange Commission. March 31, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Oil Pipeline Capacity a Big Factor in BP's Colombian Development, Oil & Gas Journal, May 10, 1993
- ↑ Andy Higginbottom, BP Refuses to Compensate Peasants For Pipeline Damage, Colombia Solidarity Campaign, August 13, 2001
