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'Oil price should fall' - Opec Sep 05 2005 04:29:16:043PM
Kuwait City - Opec's production surpasses demand, and this will eventually bring down prices, the group's president has said Sheik Ahmed Fahd Al Sabah, who is also Kuwait's energy minister, said the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries' output of 30.4 million barrels a day was more than the prevailing demand and this was helping to increase stocks of oil, which should eventually calm prices.
Sheik Ahmed blamed the latest boost in oil prices on Hurricane Katrina, which has disrupted US refineries along the Gulf of Mexico.
Kuwait has pledged $500m in oil and humanitarian supplies to help the victims of the hurricane and flooding.
Sheik Ahmed insisted there was a glut of crude oil of more than 1 million barrels a day in the market, adding that the rising prices were due to geopolitical and climatic changes, and shortages of refining capacity.
Last week, Sheik Ahmed said he will propose that Opec increase its real production by 500 000 barrels a day at the group's meeting in Vienna on September 19.
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