{"id":10336,"date":"2010-03-17T09:11:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T08:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/10336\/opec-likely-to-keep-oil-output-levels-unchanged-for-now\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T09:11:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T08:11:21","slug":"opec-likely-to-keep-oil-output-levels-unchanged-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/10336\/opec-likely-to-keep-oil-output-levels-unchanged-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"OPEC likely to keep oil output levels unchanged for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>OPEC member countries will probably decide to keep oil output levels unchanged when members officially meet today in Vienna, according to news reports citing oil ministers from Qatar and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>OPEC members will also call for better compliance with each country&#8217;s current quota, Dow Jones Newswires reported, quoting a Nigerian energy minister. Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Oil Minister Ali Naimi has said that OPEC won&#8217;t allow global oil markets to get to the point where they put too much pressure on prices, Dow Jones reported.<\/p>\n<p>OPEC&#8217;s current daily quota stands at 24.845 million barrels, but January compliance with that target was at 54.4%, according to a Platts survey of OPEC and industry officials and analysts. OPEC members will conduct their official meeting this morning.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=http2F2Foil2F032Fopec-likely-to-keep-oil-output-levels-unchanged-for-now.html&title=OPEC+likely+to+keep+oil+output+levels+unchanged+for+now\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.liveoilprices.co.uk\/oil\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=http2F2Foil2F032Fopec-likely-to-keep-oil-output-levels-unchanged-for-now.html&title=OPEC+likely+to+keep+oil+output+levels+unchanged+for+now\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.liveoilprices.co.uk\/oil\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/reddit.png\" alt=\"Reddit This\" title=\"Reddit This\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a 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oil output\">OPEC members have some issues with Iraq oil output<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveoilprices.co.uk\/oil\/opec_members\/12\/2009\/libya-says-opec-needs-more-compliance-with-oil-targets.html\" title=\"Libya says OPEC needs more compliance with oil targets\">Libya says OPEC needs more compliance with oil targets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveoilprices.co.uk\/oil\/opec_members\/12\/2009\/nigeria-oil-production-increase-a-problem-for-opec-members.html\" title=\"Nigeria oil production increase a problem for OPEC members\">Nigeria oil production increase a problem for OPEC members<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liveoilprices.co.uk\/oil\/opec_members\/03\/2010\/opec-likely-to-keep-oil-output-levels-unchanged-for-now.html\" title=\"OPEC likely to keep oil output levels unchanged for now\">OPEC likely to keep oil output levels unchanged for now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> OPEC member countries will probably decide to keep oil output levels unchanged when members officially meet today in Vienna, according to news reports citing oil ministers from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. OPEC members will also call for better compliance with each country&#8217;s current quota, Dow Jones Newswires reported, quoting a Nigerian energy minister. Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Oil Minister Ali Naimi has said that OPEC won&#8217;t allow global oil markets to get to the point where they put too much pressure on prices, Dow Jones reported. OPEC&#8217;s current daily quota stands at 24.845 million barrels, but January compliance with that target was at 54.4%, according to a Platts survey of OPEC and industry officials and analysts. OPEC members will conduct their official meeting this morning. Top Libya official says OPEC to keep oil output unchanged OPEC members oil output in Feb 2010 hits 14 month high OPEC could cut oil output if prices fall below $70 US The run up to OPEC&#8217;s December oil output meeting Brent oil price near $80 mark, OPEC oil shipments down Ecuador&#8217;s Pinto says OPEC oil output to remain unchanged Ecuador says OPEC has not discussed March oil output change OPEC member oil output hits 2009 high in December OPEC keeps oil output unchanged in December meeting OPEC member Iraq oil output may affect future oil prices OPEC says 2010 world oil demand projected higher Iran&#8217;s Khatibi say&#8217;s $100 crude oil price is &#8220;good price&#8221; OPEC member states get visit from US Energy Secretary Peak demand for oil is alarming says Saudi Arabia OPEC member Iran begins drilling oil well in Caspian Sea Latest OPEC report says 2010 oil forecast to be trimmed OPEC worried about member&#8217;s oil production targets OPEC members have some issues with Iraq oil output Libya says OPEC needs more compliance with oil targets Nigeria oil production increase a problem for OPEC members <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome-start-here-tradecrudeoilchatroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}