VOL. XXXIV

NO. 18

4-FEBRUARY-1991

OPEC & IEA

Boussena Attacks IEA Stockdraw Plan; Advocates $25/B Crude Price forMedium Term

Mr. Sadek Boussena, Algeria's Minister of Mines and Industry and currentPresident of the OPEC Conference, has launched a bitter attack on theInternational Energy Agency (IEA) for its activation of a plan to make availablean additional 2.5mn b/d of oil supply on the world market, mainly through therelease of government-held strategic stocks (MEES, 21 January).

In a...