US EditionEcuador Starts Fracking in Amazon Rainforest
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Quito. Ecuador’s state oil company reported this Wednesday that it began to exploit oil in the Amazon jungle for the first time with the fracking technique, questioned by its environmental impacts. The country becomes one of the few in the region, along with Argentina and Mexico, which uses this method in which shale rocks are fractured with a large amount of fluids, such as water, at high pressure to extract gas and crude. It also uses pollutin…
Ecuador embarks on hydraulic fracturing in Amazonia Admin FCE 30 Apr 2026 - 00:43 Ecuador's public oil company announced on Wednesday that it had, for the first time, carried out oil extraction operations in the Amazonian forest with the decried technique of hydraulic fracturing, criticized for its effects on the environment.Ecuador, together with Argentina and Mexico, became the third South American country to extract oil and gas trapped in sha…
Quito, 29 Apr (Prensa Latina) Ecuador will obtain 930 barrels of oil per day after applying for the first time the fracking technique (hydraulic fracture) in a new well located in the Amazon, official sources reported today. The post Ecuador applies fracking for the first time and expands oil production first appeared on Noticias Prensa Latina.
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