{"id":373611,"date":"2020-09-15T09:18:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T03:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=373611"},"modified":"2020-09-15T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T04:12:48","slug":"colombias-ecopetrol-says-illegal-siphoning-of-oil-pipelines-rises-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/colombias-ecopetrol-says-illegal-siphoning-of-oil-pipelines-rises-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia&#8217;s Ecopetrol says illegal siphoning of oil pipelines rises in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An increase of illegal siphoning on pipelines in Colombia is resulting in an average daily loss of 2,500 barrels of oil and refined fuels a day, the Andean country&#8217;s majority state-owned energy company, Ecopetrol, said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Close to 900 illegal valves were found on pipelines during the first eight months of the year, Ecopetrol said in a statement, up from 747 in the same period in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>An average of 1,453 barrels of oil and fuels a day was stolen in the first eight months of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Theft of oil and fuels puts communities and the environment at risk, the company added, as the methods used to tap the pipelines can result in spills affecting soil, bodies of water, animals and plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An increase of illegal siphoning on pipelines in Colombia is resulting in an average daily loss of 2,500 barrels of oil and refined fuels a day, the Andean country&#8217;s majority state-owned energy company, Ecopetrol, said on Monday. Close to 900 illegal valves were found on pipelines during the first eight months of the year, Ecopetrol said in a statement, up from 747 in the same period in 2019. An average of 1,453 barrels of oil and fuels a day was stolen in the first eight months of 2019. Theft of oil and fuels puts communities and the environment at risk, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}