VOL. XLIII

No. 15

10-April-2000

OPEC

Post-OPEC Conference Statements

Venezuelan Energy Minister and OPEC President Ali Rodriguez told the local Globovision TV station on 3 April that OPEC needs to increase production further after June, when demand will rise. The Venezuelan minister explained that demand will remain at lower levels throughout the current second quarter, but that after June, "as all analysts, without exception, have predicted, oil demand will increase." Therefore "it will be...