	ecuador says suspends oil exports due earthquake ecuador today suspended its  oil exports indefinitely due to an earthquake last night that damaged pumping and  transport installations an energy and mines ministry statement said it said the state oil firm corporacion estatal petrolera ecuatoriana cepe notified foreign customers that it was declaring force majeure on its  exports due to the tremor ecuador s opec oil output quota is barrels per day bpd a senior energy ministry official said that one pumping station at el salado on ecuador s main pipeline was damaged he also said an metre section of the pipeline attached to the bridge over the aguarico river collapsed the pumping station was about km from the reventador volcano near the epicentre of the quake which ecuadorean seismologists said registered six on the point international mercalli scale the aguarico bridge was also close to the volcano he said the quake struck northern ecaudor and southern colombia according to ecuadorean officials no injuries were reported reuter 
