	ecuador  oil exports stopped for five months ecuador needs mln dlrs to repair the damage to its oil export pipeline caused by last week s earthquake which will stop  exports for five months energy and mines minister javier espinosa teran said espinosa said yesterday the pipeline which carries  from jungle fields to the pacific ocean coast of balao would be repaired with the help of texaco inc tx n and a mexican and an argentine firm president leon febres cordero said two days ago that ecuador an opec member would have to suspend  exports for four months due to the quake oil traditionally accounts for up to two thirds of ecuador s total exports and as much as pct of government revenues deputy energy minister fernando santos alvite said ecuador would have to import six to seven mln barrels of  oil to meet its needs until the line was repaired the ecuadorean minister at the presidency patricio quevedo told reporters that venezuela will lend ecuador five mln barrels of  which would repaid in kind after a day period he added the caracas based andean development corp had granted a loan of mln dlrs towards repairing the pipeline km of which had been damaged in the quake in quito foreign minister rafael garcia velasco yesterday summoned ambassadors from about countries to whom he issued appeal for emergency aid for the country only three countries the u s colombia and venezuela had offered assistance reuter 
