OPEC president urges action to halt crude's decline
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Oil prices are very low, harming investment in the industry, and action should be taken to steady the market, OPEC president Edmund Daukoru said yesterday .
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Crude oil fell to the lowest price in almost two months after Iran, OPEC&#39;s second-biggest oil producer, said it would stop enriching uranium to ward off US calls for sanctions.
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OPEC production levels are increasing to meet escalating demand but over-inflated prices can only be brought down by resolving global conflicts, the organisation&#39;s president has said.
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Iran will support any OPEC move to bring  crude oil prices back to acceptable levels following a recent  slide, Iran's OPEC Governor Hossein Kazempour Ardebili said on  Sunday.
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OPEC has taken the unprecedented step  of urging the United States to tap its emergency crude reserves  to bring down world oil prices.
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The president of OPEC said yesterday that oil prices are too high to allow a cut in output when it meets this weekend.
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OPEC President Purnomo Yusgiantoro said on Friday he was concerned with the continuing rise in global oil prices, but the cartel had not yet seen a cost-driven increase in inflation.
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OPEC can do nothing to douse scorching  oil prices when markets are already oversupplied by 2.8 million  barrels per day (bpd) of crude, Iran's OPEC governor said  Saturday, warning that prices could fall sharply.
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JAKARTA: OPEC president Purnomo Yusgiantoro said Thursday the cartel would monitor any impact from the re-election of US President George W. Bush on oil prices.
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: Ministers from the countries that make up the oil producing cartel - OPEC â-ave taken action overnight to stop the fall in oil prices.
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International oil markets have enough oil, but a lack of capacity to refine it was contributing to high prices, OPEC's president told reporters on Sunday.
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Oil producing cartel Opec is to cut back on over-production in an attempt to halt the recent slide in prices, Kuwait's oil minister says.
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Demand for oil will decline by 1  million barrels per day (bpd) in the second quarter of 2005,  the head of the OPEC producers' cartel said on Monday.
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US Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman ahead of an OPEC meeting next month urged oil-producing states on Monday to pump more crude to ease pressure on prices.
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WASHINGTON -- Oil prices fell yesterday as OPEC's president said supplies were growing faster than demand and traders breathed easier knowing that petroleum production in the Gulf of Mexico did not suffer as a result of Hurricane Frances.
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JAKARTA The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has called on the United States to dip into its strategic petroleum reserve to help deflate oil prices, the cartel&#39;s president said Wednesday.
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Oil prices extended losses Wednesday, falling sharply as US President George W. Bush pressured OPEC to increase crude output to help cut the cost of energy.