
Ecuador oil output could fall by one-third amid protests: energy ministry
Source: Reuters Ecuadoran state-run oil company Petroamazonas estimates it could lose some 165,000 barrels-per-day (bpd), or one-third, of crude production due to “insecure conditions” in oilfields as anti-austerity protests convulse the Andean nation, the energy ministry said on Tuesday. The areas of the Sacha, Libertador and Auca fields in the country’s Amazon region were affected. The ministry said at the