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According to some sources, the city was then called Source Lake, but was later changed to Lago Agrio (sour lake) because foreign oil workers suffered from long work days and strenuous working conditions.
Lago Agrio is Spanish for "Sour Lake". The official name of the Ecuadorian town is Nueva Loja. Its current name originates from the fact that the first colonizers came from the Southern Province of Loja. The area around the city, the Lago Agrio oil field, has many ecological problems.
When a consortium of foreign multinationals discovered crude oil in Ecuador in the late 1960’s, Lago Agrio was among the first oil towns to be carved from the depths of the Amazon. Literally “Sour Lake” and also known as Nueva Loja, the sprawling municipality has become an unlikely target for international media attention. There ...
The first oil workers nicknamed Lago Agrio ‘bitter lake,’ after Sour Lake, Texas, the former home of Texaco, which pioneered local drilling. The city’s official name is Nueva Loja, although no one calls it that.
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. [1] [2] Oil was discovered in the area in 1960s.
Dec 11, 2013 · This city, with a population of seventy thousand, serves as the main port for the Amazonian basin and provides the only link to Ecuador’s most remote jungles. [2] Once a prosperous area for oil drilling, the city’s name, Sour Lake, now fittingly describes its state. [3]
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In February 2011, the Sucumbíos provincial court in Ecuador issued a landmark ruling in the case known as Lago Agrio against the Chevron-Texaco oil company. Texaco, which was taken over by Chevron in 2001, arrived in Ecuador in 1964 to drill for oil in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon, specifically in the provinces of Sucumbíos and Orellana.
