VOL. XLVI

No 10

10-March-2003

OPEC

OPEC To Maintain High Production But Keep Watch On Iraq And 2Q Demand

Crude prices remained high because of the build-up to a widely anticipated US war on Iraq and because of low and falling US crude and product inventories. President George W Bush increased the tension by stating on 6 March that the US was prepared to attack Iraq no matter what the outcome of further UN Security Council voting. Meanwhile, China joined France, Germany and Russia in the anti-war...