Saudi Questions Need for OPEC Supply Cuts
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OPEC's top producer Saudi Arabia on  Wednesday questioned the need for the cartel to bolster oil  prices by cutting supply, saying the kingdom would keep crude  output at current high levels as long as customers wanted it.
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OPEC was considering on Thursday delaying an oil output cut until the northern winter has passed, responding to the calls of importer nations' afraid supply curbs now will drive prices higher and hurt their economies.
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Oil prices steadied on Monday as OPEC  member Saudi Arabia cut exports, helping to pull the market  back from a five-month low hit earlier amid a bout of fund  selling.
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Saudi Arabia is urging global oil stocks be increased before the world&#39;s crude oil cartel consider cutting output. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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Most OPEC oil ministers held the line on Sunday that current output is sufficient to meet demand, but the world's biggest exporter Saudi Arabia was silent ahead of a September 11 meeting to chart production policy.
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The OPEC countries are scheduled to meet this week in Cairo to discuss whether the current high in oil production is to be maintained or curtailed.
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Most OPEC oil ministers held the line on  Sunday that current output is sufficient to meet demand, but  the world&#39;s biggest exporter Saudi Arabia was silent ahead of a  September 11 meeting to chart production policy.
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CAIRO  - The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is expected to take a &quot;wait and see&quot; stance on what action to take in the face of a fall in oil prices, several ministers said ahead of a cartel meeting.
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Saudi Arabia will raise oil production only when the market justifies it, the kingdom's oil minister said Tuesday, in response to President Bush's request that OPEC nations increase output to reduce world oil prices.
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Saudi Arabia has begun to reduce oil output ahead of this week&#39;s Opec meeting, industry officials said yesterday. The reduction, expected to continue over the coming months
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OPEC ministers sent conflicting signals  on Saturday on whether the group needed to reduce oil  production further to bring markets back into equilibrium.
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VIENNA: Opec is keeping its foot to the pedal on production in a bid to drag down oil prices but may be reluctant to rubber-stamp extra supplies by lifting official output limits, Saudi Arabia said yesterday.
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CAIRO - Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali Al Naimi said yesterday that world oil stocks were not building too fast and questioned the need for Opec to act on supply with prices still above the groupâs formal target.
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Saudi Arabia does not object to OPEC raising the current price band when oil-producing nations meet Sept. 15 and is negotiating the level with other oil-rich Gulf countries, a Saudi oil official said Sunday.
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All options, including cutting quotas, are up for discussion when OPEC ministers meet in Cairo this week to plan their response to a sharp fall in prices
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OPEC oil ministers yesterday backed steps to end overproduction when members of the oil cartel meet in Cairo today. Saudi Arabia and others were authorised to open the taps in August as
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WARSAW/DOHA  - Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members said on Wednesday they are not to blame for near-record oil prices, pointing the finger at a global shortage of refinery capacity and international political tension.