VOL. XXXIV

NO. 50

16-SEPTEMBER-1991

Algeria's Ait-Laoussine Proposes New Pricing Mechanism For OPEC Crude

Castigating the markets on which the OPEC countries now rely for their crudeoil pricing formulas as "narrow, imperfect and unrepresentative,"Algerian Energy Minister Nordine Ait-Laoussine has proposed a new mechanism forthe pricing of OPEC crudes, a key element of which would comprise the creationof an OPEC trading house with a view to holding prices within a target range.

The Algerian...