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Ecopetrol cuts out the middleman on Japan shipment

Thursday, June 18th, 2026 Category: Eye on Ecopetrol
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Ecopetrol cuts out the middleman on Japan shipment

Ecopetrol has completed its first direct export of petroleum coke (petcoke) to Japan, shipping 50,000 tons to a Japanese steelmaker for use in vehicle production, a transaction that represents 5 percent of the Refinería de Cartagena’s total annual petcoke exports and marks a strategic shift in how the state oil company commercializes one of its industrial byproducts.

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