A crude oil pipeline crack caused a thick oil slick in the Viche River in northwestern Ecuador. Employees of the state oil company Petroecuador were trying Saturday to contain the oil slick in the ...

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. The spill, believed to have ...

The spill in Esmeraldas province is not the first of its kind. According to Amazon Frontlines, an environmental non-profit based in Ecuador, more than 1,496 oil spills have been recorded in the ...

In March 2025, a devastating oil spill struck Ecuador’s Esmeraldas province in the northern part of the country, wreaking ...

The rupture of Ecuador's SOTE crude pipeline earlier this month spilled over 25,000 barrels of oil, the country's national disaster management agency said in a statement, affecting three rivers, ...

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 ...

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 ...