Oil to stay around $40 a barrel: Kuwaiti official

KUWAIT CITY - A top Kuwaiti oil official says crude oil prices are unlikely to rise above $40 per barrel, even if OPEC decides to enact a production cut of as much as 2 million barrels per day at its meeting next month.

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Published: Sun 15 Feb 2009, 6:17 PM

Last updated: Sun 5 Apr 2015, 10:22 PM

Moussa Marafi, a member of the Supreme Petroleum Council, the highest oil policy-making body in Kuwait, told Annahar newspaper Sunday that oil prices are being pressured by a surging U.S. crude inventories, quota noncompliance by some OPEC members and continued pumping by non-OPEC producers.

OPEC members have agreed to cut production by 4.2 million barrels from September levels. But the cuts have failed to support oil prices, with the March delivery oil contract settling Friday at slightly over $37 per barrel.


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