...more than 700 offshore platforms and rigs. Muhammad-Ali Zainy, an energy analyst at the London-based Center for Global Energy Studies, said a production increase by OPEC will have a dampening effect on prices, but the increase will not be...

...barrels. Although he foresees a short-term rise to $40 per barrel, Leo Drollas of the London-based Center for Global Energy Studies said he believed that prices would eventually fall to around $28.50 in the second quarter because producers...

...looking after your assets.' They did not nationalize them," said Manouchehr Takin, an analyst at the Center for Global Energy Studies in London. Several foreign competitors are active in Libya today, including Italy's ENI and French heavyweight...

...resume exporting even before the fighting ends, said Leo Drollas, the chief economist for the London-based Center for Global Energy Studies. In addition, Iraq's fellow members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries have indicated...

...high for the fundamentals, the economic side of the argument," said Leo Drollas, chief economist at the Center for Global Energy Studies. Taken by themselves, the physical supply and demand for oil would suggest an average price for Brent crude...

...recession of two decades ago. "There's no cause for alarm," said Leo Drollas, chief economist for the Center for Global Energy Studies, a London think tank. "But there's cause for concern. There's a long catalog of repercussions from...

...in March to do something. That's the positive side." said Leo Drollas, chief economist at London's Center for Global Energy Studies. "On the negative side, markets expected cuts to be extended and they haven't got that." OPEC on Thursday...

...question of `How much and will they deliver?"' said Leo Drollas, chief economist at the London-based Center for Global Energy Studies. OPEC secretary-general Rilwanu Lukman of Nigeria acknowledged Tuesday that some OPEC producers may need...

...to accommodate these supplies," said Muhammad-Ali Zainy, an energy economist with the London-based Center for Global Energy Studies. "Qatar's supplies won't depress the price." Qatar's good fortune is only just becoming apparent...

...with less inventory. "This is a genuinely tight market," said Leonidas Drollas, chief economist of the Center for Global Energy Studies in London, downplaying the role of hedge-funds and other speculative investors in driving prices higher...