 The pipeline was built in 1982, at that same spot, which they dubbed the Petroterminales of Panama.The pipeline starts at the PTP and ends at the town of Chiriqui Grande, on the Caribbean coast in the Bocas del Toro province, goes over the mountains between the PTP and Chiriqui Grande with the help of pumping stations like that at Boquete.From there, supertankers are filled with oil and then transported to refineries..

At one time there was a lot of talk of a refinery being built out by the PTP.