RE:PipelinesShlinker, I don't expect them to build a pipeline. The facts as I see it are:
- Vetra already shiiping 4,000 bopd to Ecuador
- Amerisur pipeline due to Ecuador with 50,000 bopd capcity due to be completed very shortly.
- Amerisur has 7,000 bopd production
- Amerisur located nearby to PTA / Vetra
- There may be other possible routes into Ecuador that are also cost effective now that the regulatory issues that were preventing this seem to be resolved.
PTA's oil could find it's way to Ecuador either on Vetra's route, Amerisur's route or some other route. I don't know the trucking route, but trucking oil to Amerisur's pipeline seems plausible. If anyone wants to comment on that possibility, please do. Even prices on existing trucking routes seem likely to fall due to competition from the new routes to Ecuador for oil opening up.