The burst happened late on Friday in the Piedra Fina zone, an area in Ecuador's Amazon where regressive erosion caused the OCP pipeline and the state-owned SOTE pipeline to halt pumping in December, forcing the government to declare force majeure over its oil exports and production.
Remedial action includes containing the spilled crude so it cannot contaminate bodies of water, the company said, adding that repairs had also begun on the tube.
OCP Ecuador said on Friday that the pipeline burst in an area which is not directly exposed to rivers, and that it had controlled the oil flow.
However, Indigenous organization CONFENIAE said communities were already being affected.
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