Trans-Caribbean Gas Pipeline

=Route=

The Trans-Caribbean Gas Pipeline (also known as the Antonio Ricaurte pipeline) carries natural gas from Chevron's Ballena field to Western Venezuela.

The project was announced in 2003 as the first step in a major regional integration project and was inaugurated in October 2007.

=Capacity=

The pipeline carries an estimated 200 million cubic feet of gas per day, runs approximately 225km and started transporting gas in 2008.

=Ownership=

State-owned Venezuelan PDVSA spent $467 million to build the pipeline to ship Colombian gas to Maracaibo as Venezuela lacks infrastructure and investment in its gas infrastructure and therefore relies on Colombian gas imports.

The gas for the pipeline is supplied from Colombia field by Ecopetrol and American Chevron.

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