VOL. XL

No. 29

21-July-1997

OPEC

Force Majeure Called As Columbia Oil Export Pipeline Bombed 37 Times In 1H 97

Occidental Petroleum Corporation and Columbia's state-owned oil company Ecopetroldeclared force majeure on crude oil liftings on 14 July following the bombing of the CanoLimon-Covenas export pipeline by guerrillas. Columbian rebels dynamited a section of thepipeline on 6 July, forcing Occidental, the operator of the field, to reduce production to70,000 b/d from its normal output of...