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OPEC ministers meet Arab as disposable oil price us $ (Reuters)

Cairo (Reuters)-OPEC ministers began arriving in Cairo Arab Thursday ahead of expected calls broach how high oil price of economy of the world can meet the bots like jumped higher annual over 91 a barrel.

Full Conference organization selected earlier this month to make a change to the policy export countries oil output has stuck since December 2008.

Since the oil must maintain a week more hrali 30 percent this year of low hit in May and this high scale of $91.63, hilly in two years.

Organization of Arab exporting countries (OAPEC), one of the Arab members of OPEC including exporter top Saudi Arabia, which has traditionally been viewed as a moderate price, as well as non-OPEC countries Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain.

Ministers began arriving on Thursday when the meeting on Saturday when they will not take any formal decision on the output but you can still discuss production and price.

"$ 100 is a fair price for the time being," the most senior official oil of Libya Ghanem Shokri told Reuters the arrival in Cairo. He said that it is too soon to talk oil output changes.

Analysts say it is a strong defence encourages ???????? OPEC oil production, although the first of all by an official pumping restrictions agreed, rather than through policy change.

"I think we are going to see production more because oil is above us," said Patrick Armstrong is based on the London investment managers of Armstrong.

"The market can easily go to $ 100 because we're starting to see more assist allocation in order to maintain the real value of investment portfolios, but think we are going to see scenarios's spikes."

Ali Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Al-Naimi said at the beginning of November the consumers looking for a price range of $ 70-$ 90.

Later, he be reiterated the view this pre-this must be kept for two years to 70 $ $ 80 was the best range for producers to consumers, ensuring sufficient earnings to generate investment supply new avoiding harm economic which could break your demand.

Divergent price aspirations

But the other group pressed at the price higher, argue as regards relief, u.s. dollar (DXY) feeble that htiishr spaces between financial markets mean nominal oil price power.

Quito's earlier this month, OPEC Secretary Abdullah Al-Badri said that opec to base any change in the policy on a foundation of supply and demand rather than price alone.

"If he goes to 100 due to speculation, will not move," said OPEC Badri.

Agreed to cut of OPEC output record of 4.2 million barrels per day in December 2008 leaves much room for informal matches.

Its members have only delivered around half their cuts of the promised additional quantity was, in Reuters survey.

OPEC is stuck in the closest to the restrictions of its output the first part of 2009 when she works hard to shore up the market had crashed down just above 30 a barrel after beating the record June 2008 of almost US $ 150.

Oil demand is expected to increase next year is expected to take a completely new high power, but analysts are still careful to draw the distinction between the current market began at the beginning of a long Bull Run-decade culminated in 2008.

Where the rate of growth in demand next year in 1.5 million bpd, Reuters poll showed, only half of the peak in 2004, according to the international energy Bureau, data of 3 million bpd.

At the same time, spare capacity OPEC saving on any number of barrels million, inventory, crude oil, the world's largest consumer in the United States are still above the levels of the year before, even after this week reported a sharp decline.

(Writing by Barbara Lewis; editing by Tom Pfeiffer William Hardy)


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OPEC ministers make no change in the output (AP)

QUITO, Ecuador – OPEC ministers decided Saturday to keep oil output at current levels, giving ample inventories of sustained global economic uncertainty and a price of just $ 90 per barrel.

12-member of the cartel said after an unusually short meeting that it based its decision on the projections show the demand for crude oil would grow more slowly than in the year 2011.

The statement also cited "challenging the risks to the weak global economic recovery," including "fear of a second crisis in the banking sector in Europe."

The world's major industrial countries continue to face "lower industrial production," lagging behind private consumption as well as continuing high unemployment, to Ministers.

"The market is to balance and is stable," oil minister Ali Naimi in Saudi Arabia, OPEC largest producer, says Reporters. -The economic fundamentals are sound. Suffering a cold, he quickly after closed-door meeting lasted less than two hours.

OPEC next scheduled collection is 2 June in Vienna, at home. Asked whether it could convene earlier if prices were to postpone, the Group's Secretary-General, the said Abdulla Salem El-Badri, this is always a possibility.

"OPEC is always ready to respond when there are important changes in the market," he says.

There was much discussion about whether oil would soon take up barrage psychological price $ 100 – or even climb closer to its historical peak of $ 147 2008 per barrel.

Venezuela's minister, Rafael Ramirez, said he believed such price was "right" is considering how much producers invest in removing oil from the ground up.

"No change" announcement was anticipated General and four cartel Ministers – from Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Nigeria – not even made the journey, send lower level delegates to this Andean capital.

OPEC, which is responsible for 35 per cent of global oil production has not changed its output quotas since the end of 2008. Last month, said Naimi was the price from $ 70 to $ 90 per barrel tolerable for consumers. On Saturday, he high end to $ 80 when prompted.

The 50-year-old cartel has had a good year, with prices soar in the interval 80 mid $ and prizes 32 percent in 2009 to 750 billion dollars, according to the u.s. Energy Department estimates. OPEC does not release the profit figures.

Oil reached a two-year high of almost $ 91 on Tuesday – traders infer dimensions for 2011 demand and responded to a particularly severe onset of winter in Europe.

Paris-based International Energy Agency, or IEA, said Friday that stronger than currently expected consumption next year in North America and Asia's emerging economies, led by China could force the OPEC to increase the supply "prices continues its inexorable rise."

Issue its demand forecast, saying it is foreseen an increase in THE IEA demand next year to 88.8 million barrels per day, 260000 daily FAT more than previously forecast.

OPEC market monthly report released Friday, forecast a boost in demand for 1.2 million barrels per day 2011 year levels to an average of 87.1 million.

While Ministers expect demand for crude oil will continue to grow, "at this moment, demand is not good," said Iran's oil minister, Masoud Mir-Kazem, Reporters.

-If the demand does not turn out to be stronger than expected, there is still a safety cushion out there and they can come back later and increase production, says analyst David Kirsch of PFC energy in Washington, the Associated Press. "Or likely, what happens is that the individual members cheat."

EL-Badri said that currently about 60%.

Oil supplies in major industrial countries and China are currently well above normal and OPEC forecasts a demand boom in North America and China in the monthly market report was published on Friday, but consider Western Europe festering debt crisis will dampen consumption there.

EL-Badri said oil stocks was seven days above the average of five years. -There is enough oil in the market, "he added. "On OPEC has six or seven million barrels per day overcapacity."

OPEC average 29.1 million barrels of production last month, a drop of 70 000 barrels from October, Platts, which studies the industry officials and analysts.

OPEC last modified output at the end of 2008 when the ceiling of a record series of cuts to increase prices had plummeted with the global economic collapse.

Some analysts believe conditions now is conspiring against much more upward pressure on prices as effects wear from the US Central Bank ECB decision to issue or buy up to $ 2.3 trillion in u.s. Treasury bonds.

Post theme footer – essentially money – made U.S. exports cheaper abroad and increased the price of oil. It also encouraged the Chinese to buy and store more oil.

Many analysts believe 100 dollars per barrel oil is inevitable in 2011 if it could be months before it gets there.

"All worked up about 100 dollars per barrel," said Barbara Shook, a Houston-based analyst with energy intelligence group. It is a psychological speech. A hundred dollar oil means that you have received $ 3 gasoline on each market in the United States

"And there is another tipping point. It can drop consumption, reduction in discretionary driving, things, "she added.

Ecuador, which entered THE OPEC 2007 after 15-year absence, holds the rotating Presidency of the year. Iran will take over for 2011.


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