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- <title>
- Apr. 23, 1990: Business Notes:Petroleum
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 23, 1990 Dan Quayle:No Joke
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 64
- Business Notes
- PETROLEUM
- Cheap Crude By the Gusher
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- <body>
- <p> Not since the oil glut of 1986 have petroleum prices gone
- on such a wild ride. During trading last week, the futures price
- of crude fell below $16.50 per bbl. for the benchmark West Texas
- Intermediate, down more than $2 from the previous week and $5
- since early March. While demand for oil usually softens during
- springtime, new calculations of the world's oil production have
- stunned commodity traders. Total output by the Organization of
- Petroleum Exporting Countries exceeds 24.5 million bbl. per day,
- or 2 million beyond its agreed ceiling. At the same time, Saudi
- Arabia said it had discovered a huge new oil field.
- </p>
- <p> The fall in prices should help industrial countries reduce
- inflation. But for oil producers, lower prices could bring a
- precipitous drop in export earnings. OPEC members are so alarmed
- that Sadek Boussena of Algeria, the group's acting president,
- has been consulting with other members to consider calling an
- emergency meeting to deal with the glut.
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- </body>
- </article>
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