La Libertad Refinery
A 45,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Ecuador, EC, operated by Petroecuador.
Record
- Rated capacity
- 45,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
- Status
- Operator
- Petroecuador
- Parent
- EP Petroecuador
- Supplier graph
- bomforge.com/companies/petroecuador-ecuador
- Coordinates
- -3.2444, -79.4237
Notes
Recent news from Jan 2026 indicates Ecuador is experiencing refinery downtime with rising imports of oil derivatives, suggesting La Libertad is not operating at full capacity. Dec 2023 news mentions potential overhaul in the pipeline. Multiple reports of decreased domestic refining output and increased imports point to reduced utilization.
What coverage reports
These are counts of what publishers filed about this plant, not an operating status. A quiet month means nobody named this facility that month, which is a fact about coverage and not about the plant. Where this site states how a refinery is running it says so in the facts table above, from the curated dataset, and cites it there.
Wire
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General LowFuture Project at Petroecuador's La Libertad RefineryIndustrial Info Resources · matched libertad
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Maintenance LowPotential overhaul for Ecuador's La Libertad refinery in the pipelineBNamericas · matched libertad
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