09/23/1979
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"This joint undertaking will be the largest single private energy project in history."
"This agreement serves the mutual interest of both countries and the national interest of each."
"We reemphasized our appreciation to the people of Ecuador for supplying oil to our country during the 1973 embargo."
"There has never been a larger project in the history of the world."