Fuente: Platts
OPEC's eleven members are currently capable of pumping
31.6-mil b/d, 4.72-mil b/d more than they produced in October, a Platts survey
of analysts and OPEC and oil industry officials showed Thursday.
But if Iraqi oil exports--averaging 1.61-mil b/d so far in November--are
removed from world markets as a result of US military action against Baghdad,
the other ten members should be more than able to cover the supply shortfall
with combined capacity of 28.7-mil b/d--4.22-mil b/d more than the 24.48-mil
b/d they produced in October. A previous Platts survey in April this year
pegged total OPEC capacity, including that of Iraq, at 32.2-mil b/d, and that
of the OPEC ten--minus Iraq--at 29.15-mil b/d. The survey revises total OPEC
capacity down by 600,000 b/d, the bulk of which is accounted for by Kuwait. Indonesian,
Iraqi, Libyan and Venezuelan capacity estimates have also been lowered.