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OPEC

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Counties (OPEC) is a permanent international body, formed in Baghdad in September of 1960. OPEC plans and orchestrates the petroleum policies of its 13 member countries – and, by default, most of the world’s gas and oil prices. This topic covers the latest news on OPEC’s plans.

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Platts podcast: Peak oil debate rages onmore

In this podcast, Richard Swann, Managing Editor for Platts' EMEA oil team, discusses in-depth the controversy...

Higher Oil Prices the “New Normal”more

Oil prices have bounced more than 150 percent off their December 2008 lows, despite the fact that inventory levels...

Platts podcast: OPEC unlikely to increase production until floating st...more

In this Platts podcast, William Bathurst, Managing Editor for Platts Marine Alert, discusses the current state of the...

Platts - The Barrel: Is the end of the oil age nigh?more

The world of oil is in for a roller-coaster ride over the next few years if Deutsche Bank analysts are right, with oil...

The Barrel: OPEC: Will they go for shock treatment or will (Saudi) rea...more

OPEC: Will they go for shock treatment or will (Saudi) reason prevail? OPEC ministers face one of their toughest...

Platts - The Barrel: On the reboundmore

Cautious optimism best describes the International Energy Agency's latest assessment of the world oil market, which...

Platts Feature: Global Bunkers Overview - Tanker market eyes bunker pr...more

The average cost of bunkers has dropped around 39% in the leading bunkering ports of the world from last October 1,...

Platts The Barrel: Who cares about OPEC compliance? Not OPECmore

It was pretty clear in the runup to OPEC's September 9 meeting that ministers were not going to change quotas.

Platts Podcast: Crude's $147/b a distant memorymore

Editors of Platts' EMEA oil team, Elzbieta Rabalska and George Johnson, discuss developments in the European crude oil...

Platts feature: OPEC keeps oil output limits unchanged, mindful of glo...more

OPEC agreed, as expected, at late night talks in Vienna September 9 to leave its current crude production limits...

Plunging oil prices spark emergency OPEC output meetmore

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Platts - podcast: Tanker markets bear the brunt of the economic slowdo...more

Growing oil stocks and products inventories around the world, as well as an influx of new-build ships, have brought...

OPEC Pres urges members to cut, says Saudi is keymore

ALGIERSL: OPEC members have no choice but to implement agreed output cuts and inform customers of the reductions if...

Oil Demand May Decline Next Yearmore

Ann-Louise Hittle, an oil analyst at Wood Mackenzie, doesn't think so. The key question will be whether OPEC, which is...

Platts podcast: Mediterranean LSFO strong on increased utility demandmore

Platts EMEA fuel oil reporters Maria Gradobitova and Benno Spencer discuss the recent strength of low sulfur fuel oil...

Platts - The Barrel: OPEC -- those numbers just keep going upmore

It's that time of the month again. Some estimates of OPEC production have already appeared and the next few days will...

Feature update: OPEC makes deep cuts in output but still well above ta...more

OPEC's efforts to mop up crude oversupply in the face of falling demand for oil gathered pace in January as the group...

Platts podcast: IEA raises world oil demand estimates for 2009, 2010more

Managing editor for Platts' European oil news, Richard Swann and senior correspondent, Margaret McQuaile, discuss the...

Platts - The Barrel: Oil might be at $70, but the fundamentals still l...more

Despite the upturn in global equity markets and oil prices in recent months, oil market fundamentals remain in a pretty...

Podcast: Dirty tanker rates plunge to record lowsmore

Platts Dirty Tankerwire editor, William Bathurst and Platts Clean Tankerwire editor, Elza Turner, discuss a turbulent...

Platts podcast: European naphtha market emerges looking buoyantmore

Platts European Marketscan editors, Richard Turner and Tim Worledge, discuss factors behind the emergence of the...

Feature: Where next for the crude market roller coaster?more

If the events of 2008 can teach the soothsayers of the oil industry anything, it must surely be that theirs is a...

Platts podcast: Russian Urals crude differentials breach record highsmore

Platts' managing editor for international crude oil, Joel Hanley, and crude oil reporter, Daniel Colover, discuss the...

The Barrel: OPEC cuts - a hint of impactmore

It's always tough to know if OPEC crude reductions are having an impact. Certainly, looking at yet another fall in...

Iran Election Protests Foretell Economic Downturnmore

As hundreds of thousands of Iranians protest the results of the June 12 presidential election, businesspeople worry...

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