	venezuela to lend up to mln barrels of oil venezuela will lend ecuador up to mln barrels of  oil to help it meet its export commitments and its domestic energy demand ecuadorean energy and mines minister javier espinosa said today in a statement ecuador was forced to suspend exports after the pipeline connecting its jungle oil fields with the pacific ocean port of balao was damaged last week by an earthquake venezuela would lend barrels per day of  for a total of up to to mln barrels to help ecuador meet export commitments espinosa said also venezuela will sell the  and provide the foreign exchange earnings to ecuador he said ecuador would repay venezuela in  once it resumed its exports after repairing its pipeline to balao a task that would take an estimated five months venezuela is lending ecuador five mln barrels of  for refining in this country to meet domestic demand ecuador would repay that loan with  once the oil pipeline is repaired both countries are the only latin american members of the organisation of petroleum exporting countries opec ecuador was exporting about bpd before the earthquake energy ministry officials said its total output was around bpd reuter 
