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IEA looks to OPEC to meet Libya shortage
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 24 - 02 - 2011

RIYADH: The International Energy Agency (IEA) will rely first of all on OPEC to meet any loss of Libyan oil and would save its emergency stockpiles as a last resort, its executive director said.
"We can produce 2 million barrels per day (bpd) for two years but these are stocks and once we use them, they will run out, unlike spare capacity," Nobuo Tanaka said. "That's why the stocks are for great emergencies."
"So if there are disruptions in Libya and OPEC steps in with an extra one million barrels, then the gap is covered."
Both IEA officials and OPEC have repeatedly made clear they can act to calm oil markets if there is a genuine shortage.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has around 5 million bpd of spare capacity.
"We we have enough credence to tell you that we will meet any shortage in demand," Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi told reporters in Riyadh at the end of producer-consumer talks Tuesday.
He also said there was no shortage for now and that it was fear that has propelled oil prices well above $100 a barrel.
The latest leg of a market rally has been spurred by the spread of a wave of revolutionary unrest into OPEC member Libya, which produces around 1.5 million bpd, of which it exports roughly 1 million bpd.
Of the IEA members, Italy was most concerned about the loss of Libyan energy exports, Tanaka said. Italy's Eni has been among the companies that have suspended output from their Libyan fields.
He said Italy's concerns would be discussed at an IEA governing board meeting Thursday and Friday.
The Paris-based IEA advises and coordinates energy policy for the industrialized nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
It has a mandate to ask its members to release oil stocks in the case of emergency supply disruption.


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