OPEC likely to keep output high
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The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is likely to keep production close to a 25-year high to prevent shortages during the US winter, OPEC officials said.
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Opec&#39;s decision yesterday to cut overproduction demonstrated that the world&#39;s biggest oil cartel will defend oil prices that are well above its official price range.
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VIENNA -- Consumers received no solace yesterday from OPEC, which said oil prices near $50 per barrel would remain high through the spring, even as the cartel decided to keep its production ceiling unchanged.
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OPEC, pumping oil at the fastest pace in 25 years, has little ammunition left to reduce near- record prices at a meeting this week, and some analysts are forecasting crude above $40 a barrel for the rest of the year.
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ABU DHABI - Opec vowed yesterday to do what it can to deflate record high oil prices that have soared above $53 a barrel, and top exporter Saudi Arabia promised to keep the world supplied with as much oil as it needs.
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OPEC is unlikely to change production at  its meeting this month and, due to high prices, is likely to  continue supplying the market more than demand, Iran's OPEC  governor Hossein Kazempour Ardebili said on Saturday.
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Oil was steady on Thursday, hovering  nearly $2 shy of its record high of $89 a barrel as one OPEC  minister raised the prospect of another output increase and  U.S. data showed rising inventories and weak demand.
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VIENNA -- OPEC, the producer of 41 percent of the world's oil, probably won't cut output at a meeting here this week as mounting tensions between the United States and Iran bolster prices.
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OPEC said it will increase production by 500,000 barrels a day, but oil futures nonetheless surged to a record close.
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OPEC, the producer of more than a third of the world&#39;s oil, expects prices will recover from their second-largest drop this year as nations enforce yesterday&#39;s decision to lower output, ministers said.
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OPEC members were expected to increase the cartel's production during a meeting Wednesday by 1 million barrels a day to meet the global demand for oil. But analysts contended that any decision by the group would likely have little effect on high oil prices.
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OPEC may decide to increase oil output  at its February 1 meeting in Vienna if supply is not  sufficient, Indonesia's OPEC governor told Reuters on Thursday.
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Major Gulf producer Kuwait will back  a hike of 1 million barrels per day in OPEC's output ceiling if  oil prices stay at record levels, a move that would bring  formal production limits in line with actual supplies.
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Major Gulf producer Kuwait will back a hike of 1 million barrels per day in OPEC's output ceiling if oil prices stay at record levels, a move that would bring formal production limits in line with actual supplies.
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Kuwait would back a hike of 1 million barrels per day (bpd) in Opec&#39;s oil output ceiling if crude prices remained at record levels, it said yesterday in a move
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Major Gulf oil producer Kuwait will back a hike of 1 million barrels per day in OPEC's output ceiling if crude prices remain at record levels, a move that would bring the cartel's formal production limits in line with actual supplies.
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OPEC will keep its oil output near a   25-year high despite a $13 fall in the crude price since   mid-July, ministers said on Monday, but the group left the door   open to a supply cut before the end of the year.