Saudi Minister Says All Major Producers Should Not Cut Oil Output

© AP Photo / Hassan Ammar, FileThis May. 3, 2009 file photo shows an oil facility in Jubeil, about 600 km from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
This May. 3, 2009 file photo shows an oil facility in Jubeil, about 600 km from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Sputnik International
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The world’s major oil producers should freeze rather than cut oil production in order to increase demand, Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi said during the IHS Energy CERAWeek conference in Houston Texas on Tuesday.

Khaled al Otaiby, an official of the Saudi oil company Aramco watches progress at a rig at the al-Howta oil field. - Sputnik International
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HOUSTON (Sputnik) — On February 16, the energy ministers of Russia, Venezuela, Qatar and Saudi Arabia agreed to level off average monthly oil output at January levels, in response to persistent low prices.

"Freeze is the beginning of a process," Al-Naimi stated. "If we can get all the major producers to agree not to add additional barrels then with high inventory we have now [supply] will probably decline in the due time."

The Saudi minister claimed that cutting production is not going to happen because not many countries will deliver even if they say they will cut production.

"There is no sense in wasting our time seeking production cuts. This will not happen. What will happen is, we will all as major producers find it easy to freeze production, let demand rise, let some inefficient supplies decline and eventually the market will rebound," he explained.

The oversupply of oil on the world market, and declining economic growth among leading consumers has resulted in oil prices reaching their lowest levels since 2004.

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