VOL. XXX

NO. 23

16-MARCH-1987

OPEC AND OIL PRICES

Ecuador Earthquakes Rupture Oriente Crude Export Pipeline: Oil ExportsSuspended

Following a series of severe earthquakes which hit Ecuador on the night of5-6 March, causing extensive damage to the 300-mile export pipeline linking theOriente oilfields in the Amazon basin to the Balao export terminal on thePacific coast, as well as to a 50-km. gas line and a pumping station, theEcuadorian state-owned agency CEPE announced on 6 March that all crude...