The spill in Esmeraldas province is not the first of its kind. According to Amazon Frontlines, an environmental non-profit ...

Petroecuador blamed a landslide due to heavy rains in recent weeks for the spill. Ecuador exploited in 2024 about 475,000 barrels per day of oil, one of its main export products. That year it sold ...

An oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black, prompting authorities to declare an environmental emergency amid "unprecedented" damage and to order residents to ration drinking ...

Ecuador’s Ministry for Energy and Mines did ... according to nonprofit Amazon Watch, which said major oil spills have been frequent and at one stage Petroecuador averaged a spill a week.

Quininde (Ecuador) (AFP) – An oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black, prompting authorities to declare an environmental emergency and order residents to ration drinking water.

Bigger spills have smothered crops, choked birds, killed cattle. In the early days of the oil bonanza, Ecuador's government encouraged people to settle in the oil patch by offering free homesteads.

Ecuador's state-owned oil company declared an emergency over a damaged pipeline and cut crude exports on Tuesday following a spill that polluted several rivers, leaving hundreds of thousands of ...

Two people were reported to have died in Ecuador's southwestern Manta region ... listening in at a meeting to discuss the disastrous oil spill. Suddenly, a megaphone announcement called out ...

Ecuador's Ministry for Energy and Mines did ... according to nonprofit Amazon Watch, which said major oil spills have been frequent and at one stage Petroecuador averaged a spill a week.

The spill, believed caused when a landslide ... The company has not estimated the volume of oil spilled. Ecuador last year produced 475,000 barrels of crude a day, exporting 72 percent of ...