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OPEC Secretary General hopes to see a recovery in the price of oil by the end of the second half of 2015
Baku, December 22, AZERTAC
Abu Dhabi - OPEC secretary general Abdullah al-Badri told Reuters on Sunday he hoped to see a recovery in the price of oil by the end of the second half of 2015.
"We hope the price would rebound by the end of the second half of 2015," he said.
"We can't see the market now, We have to wait until the end of the second half of 2015 to see how the market react to these low prices."
Meanwhile, the Saudi and Kuwaiti oil ministers said on Sunday that their countries would not cut oil production even if non-OPEC members reduce their output to shore up sagging oil prices.
"No... I think it's too late now," Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi told reporters when asked whether OPEC would cut its output if non-OPEC producers were to lower their own.
"If they (non-Opec) want to cut production they are welcome. We are not going to cut, certainly Saudi Arabia is not going to cut," Naimi said on the sidelines of an energy conference in the United Arab Emirates.
Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali al-Omair agreed.
"I don't think we need to cut. We gave a chance to others and they were not willing to do so," Omair said.
"OPEC will not cut. Nothing will happen until June and there is no emergency meeting," he said.
The two countries are influential members of OPEC and along with the UAE and Qatar pump around 16 million barrels a day, or more than half of total OPEC output.