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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Green Oasis Environmental, Inc. (GRNO)
GRNO 0.00Nov 13 4:00 PM EST

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To: Charles A. King who wrote (9889)9/24/1998 10:11:00 PM
From: Charles A. King  Read Replies (3) of 13091
 
nando.net

Oil prices up, but still lower than last year's average

Copyright © 1998 Nando.net
Copyright © 1998 Reuters News Service

The Web site of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries.

LONDON (September 24, 1998 4:37 p.m. EDT
nandotimes.com) - Oil prices were increased
Thursday as some fresh buying helped extend a
six-week recovery which has added $3 a barrel to the
value of crude.

Benchmark Brent blend settled 16 cents higher at
$14.68 a barrel, advancing from a mid-August
lowpoint which had producers worried their attempts
to boost prices by cutting output had failed.

But prices are still nearly 25 percent lower than last
year's average and analysts predict that the threat of
global economic slowdown will keep a lid on demand
and hamper a fully-fledged recovery.

A sixth straight weekly crude stock draw in the key
U.S. market has helped reduce massive world
stockpiles.

The year-on-year U.S. inventory overhang has now
halved from 30 million barrels earlier this summer.

Traders said prices also drew strength from fears
U.S. oil production could be disrupted by Hurricane
Georges, which at one point forced the closure of a
big refinery and killed at least 116 people on a
five-day rampage across the Caribbean.

But they cautioned that a fall in U.S. refinery
production runs and a large rise in refined product
stocks implied that demand prospects may not be
that bright.

"No-one should imagine that this market is out of the
woods yet," a London trader said.

Yet recent price gains have relieved some pressure
on oil producers who have had to group together this
year for some three million bpd of output cuts.

Oil ministers from Iran, Algeria, Kuwait, the UAE and
Oman said after a short meeting on Wednesday kept
open the prospect of further production cuts.

Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Saud Nasser al-Sabah
said after the gathering that producers might even
agree on new cuts before a ministerial meeting of the
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
on Nov. 25.

Others appeared more cautious after the talks which
ended with a statement that said the ministers would
examine necessary measures including cuts to
support prices.

Prices in dollars a barrel:

Sept 24 Sept 23
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IPE November Brent 14.68 14.52
NYMEX November light crude 16.00 15.81

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To see the updated graphs of oil prices, go to

oilworld.com

Charles
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