VOL. XXXVII

NO. 17

24-JANUARY-1994

Oil Pricing

Speakers Debate Pricing & Trading Middle East Crudes At BahrainConference

When it comes to the debate over the proper mechanisms for trading andpricing Middle East crude supplies, it is probably safe to say that the generalconsensus which emerged from last week's second annual Middle East Petroleum& Gas Conference in Bahrain was that the prevailing benchmark pricing systemhas its share of shortcomings. That being said, agreement on what...