| Fomca syor harga minyak diturunkan ikut pasaran dunia |
Oleh Roy Rasul KUALA LUMPUR, 5 Okt (Hrkh) - Kerajaan sewajarnya menurunkan harga minyak jika harganya terus menjunam di pasaran antarabangsa, kata Pengarah Komunikasi Korporat, Gabungan Persatuan-Persatuan Pengguna Malaysia (Fomca), Yusof Abdul Rahman.
Beliau berkata, ini kerana semasa harga minyak dunia dinaikkan AS$70 setong kerajaan menaikkan harga minyak di pasaran tempatan.
"Kita tahu walaupun harga minyak belum stabil, tetapi penurunan harga minyak kepada AS$59 setong, Selasa lalu, mungkin akan disuarakan dan dijadikan alasan
pengguna kerana dulu apabila minyak naik, kerajaan naikkan harganya."
"Jadi sekarang ini mungkin pengguna akan menimbulkan pula persoalan adakah kerajaan akan menurunkan harga minyak apabila harganya di pasaran dunia jatuh," katanya semasa dihubungi Harakahdaily hari ini.
Media tempatan hari ini melaporkan harga minyak jatuh ke paras terendah sejak bulan Februari lalu kepada AS$59 setong.
Yusuf berkata, jika harga minyak tersebut kekal dalam beberapa bulan akan datang, kerajaan perlu memberi pertimbangan serius untuk menurunkan harga minyak.
"Sebabnya semasa harga minyak dinaikkan dulu, pengguna menanggung bebaban hidup yang tinggi," katanya.
Katanya lagi sekiranya, kerajaan prihatin dan mengambil keputusan untuk menurunkan harga minyak selaras penurunan harga minyak dunia, pasti akan melegakan
pengguna.
Sehubungan itu katanya, Fomca berharap kerajaan prihatin terhadap penurunan harga minyak, kerana ia dapat mengurangkan bebanan rakyat terutama menjelang musim perayaan dan tahun baru. - lanh
| Opec 'to cut oil production' |
Oleh Al-Jazeera
CAIRO, Okt 5 - Opec is considering holding an emergency meeting to discuss the possibility of cutting output, Nigeria's oil minister has said.
"We are toying with the idea of an emergency meeting," Edmund Daukoru, who also serves as president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, said on
Thursday.
Other opec officials said on Thursday that "the direction and spirit are there" for the organisation, which pumps more than a third of the world's oil, to cut production as the US economy slows and rival producers bring new supplies to market.
Any reduction would aim to stem a price slide that has brought prices to just under $60 a barrel - 25% lower than prices were in mid-July, Opec trackers say.
The Financial Times newspaper reported on Thursday that Opec was poised to cut at least one million barrels, or four percent of daily production.
The 11-member organisation is due to meet in Nigeria on December 14 but some states, including Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest exporter, are already trimming supplies, shipping sources and customers have said.
Last week Nigeria, Opec's sixth biggest producer and Venezuela, the fourth biggest,
announced token output cuts, totalling 170,000 barrels per day or less than one percent of Opec's output.
But since then oil prices have fallen further on rising US stockpiles, drawing the first reaction from Opec's core Gulf producers.
Gulf concerns
Sheikh Ali al-Jarrah al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti oil minister, raised the chance of broader action on Wednesday, saying that his country might also cut back if prices continued to fall sharply.
The Opec delegate said that while Saudi Arabia had not commented on the market so far, the fact that it raised the price of its heavier crude to Europe on Wednesday indicated the kingdom may be cutting supply.
Iran and Libya also support a cutback while the UAE is also likely to do so, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Thursday, quoting Opec insiders.
US oil prices have trebled in the
space of four years, but are currently far below their mid-July peak of $78.40.
Andrew Harrington, a resource analyst at ANZ Bank, said: "Obviously, Opec has seen that the world economy can keep going at $65 to $75, so they don't see any reason why prices should fall too much further."
Conflicting signals
On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the US reiterated the kingdom's long-standing view that there was an abundance of crude oil.
The price for Opec's own basket of crudes fell to $54.19 a barrel on Wednesday.
Opec members have sent conflicting signals on price.
Iran's oil minister said last month he wanted to see Opec oil at or above $60, equating to around $65 for US oil.
At the other extreme, Kuwait's oil minister said on Wednesday he would be worried by US oil at $50, putting the Opec
basket at about $45. - mks.
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