Roundup: Ecopetrol, Interoil, PDVSA, Recope, YPFB

Fairbanks Morse Engine reported it received an order from Colombia's Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) to supply five, two-stroke, opposed-piston, dual-fuel, engine-driven crude oil pump sets and auxiliary equipment for the Ayachucho-Covenas pipeline. Delivery is scheduled for the first quarter 2014. *** Interoil Exploration & Production announced that results of the company's fifth Monserrate well (MN-33) in Colombia - drilled to 4,071ft (1,241m) - show initial production of 133b/d and 146boe/d. *** Venezuela's PDVSA reported a "minor" fire at the number three high vacuum unit of the Cardón refinery at the Paraguaná refining center that was extinguished without impacting operations or the environment. Two workers received minor burns and will return to work while the unit is stopped for cleaning, added the NOC. *** Costa Rica's government named Litleton Bolton Jones new president of state refiner Recope and tasked the official, who held the position in 2002-06, to advance development of " plan B" to expand and modernize the refinery. The official replaces Jorge Villalobos who resigned in June after the state comptroller invalidated a prefeasibility study of the refinery project. *** And Bureau Veritas Argentina, ICC Ingenieros, Inelectra, Progen and Vepica attended a clarification meeting as part of Bolivian state hydrocarbons company YPFB's second call for bids to supervise a virtual LNG supply project, BNamericas has learned.