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[Jens T]

Irak ist schon seit Jahren praktisch nicht mehr dabei.
In Venezuela wird sich der Quotenverfechter Chavez nicht mehr lange halten können.
Algerien fordert vehement eine höhere Quote und verleiht dem mit einer Überproduktion von zuletzt 20 % Nachdruck.
Die Russen klauen dem Kartell mehr und mehr Marktanteile.
Die ehemaligen Sowjetstaaten fangen gerade erst an.

Und jetzt das:


22 Jul 2002 08:50 ECT DJ UK PRESS: Nigeria Mulls Resigning From OPEC


Copyright © 2002, Dow Jones Newswires

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Nigeria could be on the brink of quitting the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries over its plans to expand capacity, the Independent on Sunday said.

Sources close to the 11-member oil body say Nigeria, its fifth-biggest producer, could threaten to resign as soon as OPEC`s next scheduled meeting in September, the paper says.

Newspaper Web site: http://www.independent.co.uk

(END) Dow Jones Newswires 22-07-02

[M_B_S]

Ist ne Ente um die Oelpreis - Hype vor und wärend des Irak Krieges zu drücken !



Die sägen doch nicht an dem Ast auf dem Sie sitzen :

Ein Oelpreiskrieg wäre die Folge, und bei dem gibt es nur Verlierer !

Alle wollen Preise über 30 $

Man ist doch Scheich !

[Jens T]

Der OPEC-Präsident Rilwanu Lukman höchstselbst (ist übrigens Nigerianer ) hat in der vergangenen Woche erstmals öffentlich von der Möglichkeit eines Preiskriegs mit Russland gesprochen. Außerdem wies er in seiner Eigenschaft als Berater des nigerianischen Präsidenten darauf hin, dass Nigeria plane, seine Förderkapazitäten in naher Zukunft erheblich auszubauen und dass dafür wohl eine höhere Quote innerhalb der OPEC nötig werden würde. Soviel zum Thema "Ente".

[M_B_S]

Nigeria denies report country plans to quit OPEC

PETROLEUMWORLD
Caracas, July 22


DJ-The Nigerian government and oil officials Monday dismissed as false a report that the country is planning to quit the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

One source said a report that emphasized a supposed planned Aug. 1 statement from Rilwanu Lukman, adviser to the Nigerian president on petroleum issues, had incorrectly characterized a long-planned press conference for Nigerian journalists on the state of the country`s petroleum industry.

Lukman, the current OPEC president, is a former secretary general of the organization.

Capacity Increases Planned


Also Monday, the OPEC news agency, OPECNA, quoted senior officials in Nigeria`s petroleum ministry as saying there is no truth whatsoever in the report published in the U.K. newspaper "The Independent on Sunday," which said Nigeria could pull out of the group as early as its upcoming Sept. 18 meeting.

Nigeria has ambitious plans to sharply increase its oil production in coming years, but officials have said they will seek to do so without the framework of OPEC`s oil output quotas.

Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo told Dow Jones Newswires on June 28 that the country would seek to increase its OPEC output quota due to expansion plans.

"We want to tell OPEC with facts and figures what our position is...we believe that OPEC is reasonable and sensible and (they`ll) see where we have a case and...then I expect OPEC to react positively," he said.

Lukman said in London last week that Nigeria plans to raise its crude oil production capacity in the future, but not if the move weakens prices.

A Nigerian oil official noted that there has been comment in some newspapers in the country that Nigeria should pursue a course independent of OPEC in order to maximize its oil production. "It`s not new that there are such pressures and discussions, but there`s really no substance" to the current reports, the official said.

Nigeria, which joined OPEC in July 1971, is the fifth-biggest oil producer in the 11-member group.

It currently has an output quota of 1.787 million barrels a day, but pumped around 1.91 million b/d in June, according to independent estimates. Nigeria`s oil production capacity is estimated at 2.3 million b/d, but plans call for a doubling of capacity in future years.

Shell Petroleum Development Co., or SPDC, which is 30%-owned by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Cos. (RD), said in January it planned to boost investments in Nigeria that would nearly double the company`s oil output to 1 million b/d. Shell is the largest foreign oil producer operating in the country.

Other stakeholders in SPDC are TotalFinaElf SA (TOT) of France, with 10%, Agip SpA (I.AGI) of Italy, with 5%, and the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (O.NNP), with the remaining 55%.

By David Bird, Dow Jones Newswires;[e-mail]

NEW YORK
Dow Jones Newswires 22-07-02 1536GMT

Sag ich ja ENTE ! Grund IRAK !