OPEC weekly average oil price hits record high
The weekly average oil price of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) reached a record high of $72.72 per barrel last week, up $0.86 from the previous week, the cartel's secretariat said on Monday.
The OPEC daily average oil price had dropped to below $72 since historical high of $72.83 on July 16. With the drop in the gasoline stock in the United States and crude oil production in Angola, an OPEC member, OPEC's daily average oil prices rebounded to a new record of $73.67 on July 20.
Mohamed Hamli, rotating president of OPEC and energy minister of the United Arab Emirates, said on Sunday that no evidence could prove that the high oil prices had disturbed the growth of the global economy. However, he stressed that OPEC would increase crude oil supply if necessary, in a departure from a previous OPEC statement emphasizing that the current crude oil supply in the global market was sufficient, and that soaring oil prices should be attributed to geopolitical factors and insufficient refinery capabilities in the US.
Marketing analysts believed that the crude oil stock was still above a five-year average level in spite of last week's shrinkage in the US gasoline stock, while the demand for gasoline in the US would be close to peak in summer, leading international oil prices to still hover at a high level. (english.people.com)
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