Market waits for more concrete Saudi Arabian move

摘要

London—Saudi Arabian oil minister Ali Naimi’sstatement that the kingdom stood ready tobring on its full capacity of 12.5 million b/d ifneeded has had little real impact on a marketkeen to see a more concrete gesture from theworld’s top oil exporter, analysts said March 21.Naimi’s comments to a small group ofjournalists in the Qatari capital, Doha, appearto have packed considerably less punch thantwo previous Saudi policy statements duringthe past week, one a day earlier from the Saudicabinet and the other Naimi’s own address toan international meeting of oil producing andconsuming countries in Kuwait on March 14.