ABU DHABI RAISES OIL OUTPUT

MEES Executive Editor Ian Seymour Reports from Abu Dhabi

Faced like other oil exporting countries with a sharp drop in revenue as a result of the general price collapse, Abu Dhabi has raised its oil production by a substantial volume. MEES understands that Abu Dhabi's crude output in February and programmed production for March is running at around Len b/d. This represents an increase of some 25-30% over the 1985 average output in the range of 750,000800,000...