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The Lago Agrio oil field is an oil-rich area near the city of Nueva Loja in the province of Sucumbíos, Ecuador. It is located in the Western Oriente Basin. The site's hydrocarbon-bearing formations are the Cretaceous Napo and Hollin formations. Oil was discovered in the area in 1960s.
- Nueva Loja
Nueva Loja (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈnwe.βa ˈlo.xa]), also...
- Lago Agrio Canton
Lago Agrio Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the...
- Nueva Loja
Nueva Loja (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈnwe.βa ˈlo.xa]), also known as Lago Agrio, is the capital of the province of Sucumbíos in Ecuador. It was founded in the 1960s as a base camp of Texaco. The official population as of the 2022 census is 55,627.
Lago Agrio Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Sucumbíos Province. Its capital is the town of Nueva Loja. Its population at the 2001 census was 66,788. [2] The region contains the Lago Agrio oil field which is at the heart of a high-profile court case against Chevron .
El cantón Lago Agrio es una entidad territorial subnacional ecuatoriana, de la Provincia de Sucumbíos. Su cabecera cantonal es la ciudad de Nueva Loja, lugar donde se agrupa gran parte de su población total. Su población según el censo del 2010 es de 91.744 habitantes, de los cuales 46.966 son hombres y 44.778 mujeres.
Nueva Loja, también conocida como Lago Agrio [2] , es una ciudad ecuatoriana; cabecera cantonal del Cantón Lago Agrio y capital de la Provincia de Sucumbíos, así como la urbe más grande y poblada de la misma.
Lago Agrio. Ecuador, South America. This town pulses with the life of the oil industry, a chaotic market, dusty streets, thick traffic and gritty bars. The first oil workers nicknamed Lago Agrio ‘bitter lake,’ after Sour Lake, Texas, the former home of Texaco, which pioneered local drilling.
The company operates several oil fields, including Shushufindi, Sacha, Auca, Lago Agrio, and Libertador. It also operates the Trans-Ecuadorian oil pipeline network, Sistema de Oleoducto Transecuatoriano (SOTE), built in 1972 for Texaco-Gulf. [7] Ecuador is the fifth largest oil producer in the Latin American region.
