VOL. XLII

No 46

15-November-1999

OPEC

Long-Awaited OECD Stockdraw Has Finally Arrived, Says IEA

After a period of acute puzzlement over the non-appearanceof an expected large OECD stockdraw in the third quarter of this year inresponse to a rapid tightening of the world oil market, the InternationalEnergy Agency (IEA) now concludes that a very substantial stockdraw has finallybegun.

In the latest (November) issue of its Monthly Oil MarketReport (MOMR), the Agency declares that the long-awaited...