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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Green Oasis Environmental, Inc. (GRNO)
GRNO 0.00Nov 21 4:00 PM EST

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To: Charles A. King who wrote (8579)1/21/1998 9:45:00 PM
From: Charles A. King  Read Replies (1) of 13091
 
Sheik Yamani had been in charge of Saudi oil policy back when OPEC was in its heydey. He has been out of power for many years but wrote a book saying OPEC should sell oil at very low prices again. I don't know why though because I didn't read the book. Maybe it was so that marginal producers would be bankrupted and the price of crude could swing way back up again.

This is in the news tonight.

Saudi Arabia says it will not act
alone to support oil market

www2.nando.net

LONDON (January 21, 1998 5:13 p.m. EST
nando.net) - Saudi Arabia signalled on
Wednesday that it has no intention of providing the
lone safety net for world oil markets, despite the price
slump putting a squeeze on the oil-dependent
economies of OPEC producers.

The source, familiar with Saudi policy, said Saudi
Arabia believed that oil market fundamentals did not
warrant such low crude prices.

"The weakness in the oil price is due to speculation
more than fundamentals on the ground," he said. "It is
a problem of expectations. If we look at fundamentals
prices are too low."

OPEC at the end of November raised output limits by
10 percent to 27.5 million bpd but many in the group
with the capacity to do so were already pumping
excess.

Recently-resumed Iraqi exports under a United
Nations exchange are expected to push OPEC
quickly toward 28.5 million bpd.

Oil analysts warned that OPEC supplies at that level
were likely to push oil prices even lower.

"If OPEC fails to respond at all prices are destined to
fall further during the year, plunging the oil industry
into a financial mess reminiscent of 1986," said
London's Centre for Global Energy Studies.

Washington-based consultancy Petroleum Finance
said Saudi and its Gulf OPEC neighbors would need
to reduce supplies by 600,000 bpd to stop Brent
falling below $14 a barrel.

But the source said Saudi Arabia's stance on any
new initiative inevitably would be influenced by the
quota violations which have undermined previous
OPEC pacts.
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