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By Marlene Smith
Vienna
08 March 2006

The Organization of Petroleum 1 Exporting Countries (OPEC) has decided 2 to hold its output steady. The decision comes amid new threats from cartel member Iran to cut supplies. 


An Iraqi worker operates a valve at the oil pipeline 3 near southern Iraqi city of Basra (File photo)  
  
OPEC ministers decided to play safe at their regular meeting in Vienna, aware that on the other side of the Danube a crucial debate on Iran's nuclear program could force a change. Despite record prices of around $60 per barrel, OPEC is keeping official output to 28 million barrels per day. Oil analyst 4, Ehsan Ul-Haq of P.V.M. Oil Associates in Vienna says the cartel is faced with several uncertainties 5 which make forecasts difficult.

"Because of geo-political considerations. In Nigeria more than 450,000 barrels per day of production is offline," he said. "In Ecuador there are problems regarding oil production. Nobody knows for certain what will happen in Iran."

Iran has threatened to use oil as a weapon if the IAEA refers its atomic program to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.

Nigeria is the world's eighth largest oil supplier and has suffered outages this year because of rebel attacks.

Instability in Iraq is also a factor OPEC must consider. Experts say world oil demand should slow in the second quarter with warmer weather in the northern hemisphere and any cut now would be counter-productive. OPEC says it is committed to providing the market with oil at reasonable prices.



n.原油,石油
  • The Government of Iran advanced the price of petroleum last week.上星期伊朗政府提高了石油价格。
  • The purpose of oil refinery is to refine crude petroleum.炼油厂的主要工作是提炼原油。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.管道,管线
  • The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
  • A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
无把握( uncertainty的名词复数 ); 不确定; 变化不定; 无把握、不确定的事物
  • One of the uncertainties of military duty is that you never know when you might suddenly get posted away. 任军职不稳定的因素之一是你永远不知道什么时候会突然被派往它处。
  • Uncertainties affecting peace and development are on the rise. 影响和平与发展的不确定因素在增加。 来自汉英非文学 - 十六大报告
学英语单词
account headings
allopathic-medicine
alniphyllum peierospermum mats.
amortization rent
anesthesia unit
anticipated interest
artillery field piece
authorized entry
automaics
bagyo
balearica
ballistic correction of the moment
beam recording
body wisdom
carbon steel roll
carbynic
catalyst pretreatment
centrallizing
cesar estrada chavezs
chief of the executive
chordotonal
constant voltage system
continuity concept
contrast potentiometer
Cooper Creek
CSPRNG
desglucohellebrin
diktonius
direct spike
disturbance of electromagnetic field
emergency lamp signal telegraph
equiform group
espirito
family Phyllidae
feel ill at east
fissurae petrosquamosa
fritt
gasfree
graphite gneiss
heterodynamous insect
honeycomb-radiator
hydraulic piercing press
increment dump
inrunning nip point
intra-district
intratracheal injection
jordanian dinars
litai
maricara
marine surveillance
mass divergence
meanwhiles
medina(al madinah)
melloul
monitor panel
montclair
myrmeleontidaes
naprapaths
nervous as a cat
Niobo-tantalo-titanate
overdefines
Peillonnex
Phayam, Ko
photorefractive coupler
picture period
pinnel
plectomycetess
pleuromitic
Polygonum ocreatum
pool hall
prewithdrawal demolition target
production-ready
purchase and sale by will
republics
right skewness
Santa Catarina Barahona
sell on commission
sharp-shooter
sialyltransferase
site-plan
skin of paint
smoker keratosis
Sombrero Chan.
Sorelianism
special cargo list
Stop yap ping
sulphonic acid
sunk costs
taungya system
teaboxes
tetragonal alternating class
the bitter truth
to spin
to throw down
torus uteri
unicasted
warren beatty
wave around
whalefishes
wrist stiffness syndrome
X-ray drill