Ecuador’s oil production has plunged to multi-year lows after heavy rains and erosion caused the shutdown of the two largest crude pipelines, potentially costing the country as much as $300 million in lost revenue. On 2 July, Ecuador’s national oil company EP Petroecuador declared force majeure on the operations of the Sistema de Oleoducto Transecuatoriano (SOTE) and the Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP) pipelines, in an effort to safeguard critical infrastructure. The SOTE pipeline was shut down the same day due to heavy rainfall,…