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At the instruction of the Colombian President Ivan Duque’s finance ministry, Colombia’s state-controlled petroleum company, Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC, BVC: ECOPETROL) has called for an extraordinary meeting of shareholders for December 16th at 7:30am in Bogotá’s Corferias...

The wells are held jointly with U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. and have hit a combined 2,800 barrels per day in testing.

Despite the year-over-year drop, the actual output did exceed Ministry of Mines and Energy's estimate of 840,000 barrels of oil per day.

Repairs have not been completed due to “continued harassment by firing helicopters” and “anti-personnel mines,” said Ecopetrol.

The oil spill has threatened a nearby stream that feeds into an aqueduct relied upon by some 3,500 locals in Guamalito.

Ecopetrol did not identify who attacked the pipeline, but a Reuters reports states that military sources believe ELN guerrillas were responsible.