VOL. XXX

NO. 9

8-DECEMBER-1986

THE PROSPECTS FOR OIL PRODUCERS FROM AN OPEC VIEWPOINT

by Fadhil J. Al-Chalabi

(The following article by Dr. Fadhil J. Al-Chalabi, the Deputy SecretaryGeneral of OPEC, is based on a lecture delivered extemporaneously at theInstitute of Petroleum in London on 27 November 1986. It is also due to bepublished in the Institute's monthly magazine Petroleum Review in January 1987.)

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