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Colombia oil line bombed, exports normal-Ecopetrol

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Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:33 GMT

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BOGOTA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Colombia's 48,000 barrel-per-day capacity Transandino oil pipeline has been halted by two suspected rebel bomb attacks, but exports and output have not been affected, state-run Ecopetrol <ECO.CN> said on Tuesday.

The Transandino transports crude from the southern Putumayo province near the Ecuadorean frontier to the port of Tumaco on the Colombian Pacific coast. It was not operating at full capacity at the time of the bombings.

"There were two attacks on the pipeline, pumping has been halted, but production and exports are normal," an Ecopetrol spokesman said.

Colombia, now Latin America's No. 4 oil producer, has seen a sharp drop in violence from its long war as rebels have been battered by a U.S.-backed security offensive. But guerrillas still occasionally attack oil pipelines in remote areas.

(Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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