Linking up.Colombia Colombia (kəlŭm`bēə, Span. kōlōm`byä), officially Republic of Colombia, republic (2005 est. pop. 42,954,000), 439,735 sq mi (1,138,914 sq km), NW South America. Bogotá is the capital and largest city. and Venezuela Venezuela (vĕnəzwā`lə, Span. vānāswā`lä), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, republic (2005 est. pop. 25,375,000), 352,143 sq mi (912,050 sq km), N South America. have pledged to construct a natural gas link between the two countries. The USS USS abbr. 1. United States Senate 2. United States ship USS abbr (= United States Ship) → Namensteil von Schiffen der Kriegsmarine 170 million project would run from La Guajira La Guajira (lä gwähē`rä), peninsula, c.100 mi (160 km) long, N Colombia, extending into the Caribbean Sea. Punta Gallinas, at the tip, is the northernmost point of South America. in Colombia's northeast to the western Venezuelan city of Maracaibo. Venezuela might also fund an $806 million expansion of Colombia's Cartagena refinery, the country's second largest. "I think Colombia will export natural gas to Venezuela for about seven to nine years while Venezuela works on building its infrastructure to deliver gas from its east to its west, and once that happens, Colombia can begin to import gas from Venezuela," says Luis Yepes, a former vice president of Colombia's state-run oil company Ecopetrol and now a consultant on energy projects in Colombia. |
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