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AP
Oil Prices Rise Above $63 a Barrel
Friday December 8, 7:38 am ET
Oil Prices Rise Above $63 a Barrel As Market Eyes OPEC Meeting, Nigeria Unrest
LONDON (AP) -- Oil prices rose Friday, supported by a possible production cut by OPEC countries and amid violence in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer.
Light, sweet crude for January delivery gained 64 cents to $63.13 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by midday in Europe.
January Brent crude at London's ICE Futures exchange rose 93 cents to $63.50 a barrel.
Prices were also supported by uncertainty ahead of a meeting next week of oil ministers from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Some officials have been pressing in recent days for a cut in output on top of a production cut of 1.2 million barrels a day, approved in October.
On Thursday, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S., Prince Turki al-Faisal, said current crude oil prices were "acceptable and imminently fair."
In Nigeria, a militant group attacked a southern oil export terminal belonging to a subsidiary of Italy's Eni SpA early Thursday, taking three Italians and a Lebanese hostage and killing another person, officials said.
Agip officials said oil exports at the 200,000 barrels a day terminal were not affected. The group vowed more attacks will follow if their long-standing demands, which include compensation from Royal Dutch Shell PLC for alleged environmental pollution, are not met.
Since the beginning of 2006, militant groups in Nigeria have attacked pipelines and taken workers hostage in violence that has kept about 500,000 barrels a day of Niger Delta crude off the market, although output has grown offshore Nigeria.
Buying of oil futures was kept in check by forecasts of warmer weather in the United States next week.
Temperatures in the U.S. Northeast, the nation's largest heating oil market, were expected to moderate later in the week, with the National Weather Service forecasting above-normal temperatures through most of the nation next week.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said last month that the unusual warming of water in the Pacific Ocean known as El Nino was expected to continue into winter. The federal Climate Prediction Center said the result could be warmer than normal temperatures over the western and northern United States and western and central Canada.
Natural gas futures fell fractionally to $7.668 per 1,000 cubic feet on the Nymex, unleaded gasoline rose 1.1 cent to $1.6385 and heating oil prices were up 1.82 cents to $1.7970 a gallon.
