Colombia's No. 2 crude export pipeline, the Cano Limon, has resumed pumping following a rebel bomb on Thursday that suspended service, an army spokeswoman stationed near the attack said Monday.
Repair crews arrived at the site Friday and the pumping was back to normal either on Saturday or Sunday, said the army official, who asked not to be identified.
The pipeline is jointly owned by state oil firm Empresa de Petroleos de Colombia, or Ecopetrol, and U.S. company Occidental Petroleum Inc. . It serves Occidental's Cano Limon field, the No. 2 field in Colombia.
It was at least the tenth bombing of the Cano Limon this year. Colombian rebels bombed the pipeline about 40 times last year and a record 170 times in 2001.
The 780-km Cano Limon pipeline transports roughly 100,000 barrels of crude a day from the Cano Limon field in the northeastern state of Arauca to the Atlantic port of Covenas for export.
Pipeline breach dumps oil into Colombian river
Seventeen villages in southwestern Colombia could be adversely affected by a pipeline rupture that allowed oil to spill into the Guelmambi River.
Colombia must drill 60 wells per year for oil self-sufficiency
Colombia's government says the nation must sign 30 oil-exploration contracts and drill 60 oil wells every year until 2020 to reverse a decline in oil output and reserves as well as to maintain its self-sufficiency in the commodity.
Colombian politician, cops charged with theft from pipelines
The Colombian attorney general's office ordered a mayor-elect and three police officers accused of being part of a band that stole fuel from state-run pipelines be held without bail.
