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...cartel's profit motive was much in evidence at an Arab energy conference in Abu Dhabi last week. Delegates bitterly attacked Western oil companies for trading oil back and forth among themselves at extortionate prices on the small but highly volatile spot market. Mani Said Utaiba, Oil Minister of the United Arab Emirates and president of the cartel, suggested that at its next meeting on March 26 in Geneva, OPEC should take up the idea of blacklisting offending companies and refusing to sell oil to them...
...OPEC cartel's price of $13.34. This windfall profit for European oil companies and oil traders acting as middlemen has riled the producing nations, which once again are wielding their monopoly power. They want higher prices for all their oil. "The oil companies are making excessive profits," insists Mani Said Utaiba, the Oil Minister for the United Arab Emirates...
...oversupply has been caused primarily by the arrival of oil on the market from new North Sea, Alaskan and Mexican wells. Those three areas are now producing an estimated 2 million bbl. per day?precisely the amount of the current surplus. Oil Minister Mani Said Utaiba of the United Arab Emirates admitted at the conference: "We can't talk about increasing prices because there are too many barrels of oil every day in the market. If we increase the price, we won't be able to sell...
United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi, the leading producer, has been negotiating sporadically to raise from 60% to 100% the emirates' ownership of local production, but it has indicated that it plans to leave the current 60%-40% arrangement intact through 1976. Says U.A.E. Petroleum Minister Mani Said Utaiba: "We feel we shouldn't rush things...
Frustration is increasing among some OPEC members. Last week Abu Dhabi's Petroleum Minister Mani Said...