	mees says second week march opec output mln bpd opec produced only about mln bpd of oil in the second week of march mln bpd below its ceiling largely because of pipeline problems in turkey and ecuador the middle east economic survey mees estimated a landslide breached iraq s one mln bpd pipeline through turkey on march for a week and earthquakes in ecuador have shut down its export pipeline for four to five months ecuador has an opec quota of bpd mees put saudi arabian output at mln bpd in the first week of march and mln bpd in the second in addition to output from the neutral zone between saudi arabia and kuwait mees said saudi arabia was pumping more than bpd of its total production into floating storage saudi oil minister hisham nazer told reuters and the television news agency visnews yesterday that saudi output including neutral zone production was around three mln bpd the cyprus based newsletter also said authoritative libyan oil sources said libya was producing bpd compared with its bpd quota and that actual liftings are much lower than that it said one major libyan equity producer had partially stopped lifting its bpd equity entitlement for march because libya was insisting on official prices but is still lifting bpd of debt  at official prices and a further bpd of purchase  it said small equity producers with entitlements of only to bpd had also told tripoli they could not lift at official prices mees said iraq had sent a telex to opec and member countries calling for the formation of a committee to study what it said were inequalities in marketing potential among various members the newsletter said the iraqi letter indicated baghdad was having difficulty selling  at official prices the iraqi telex pointed out that some member countries export substantial volumes of oil that are not subject to opec price regulations exports of refined products equity  on which the margins are equivalent to covert discounts and other forms of hydrocarbons which are marketed in package deals with  oil reuter 
