WORLD Page 14 THE BATTALION Thursday, March All you can eat MELISSA SACKETT/The Battalion Matt Blackwell, a sophomore business administration major, receives a serving of Brazilian cuisine at the annual International Buffet Wednesday in the MSC. Minister suggests oil increast PARIS (AP) — Mexico’s oil minister said to day that the market needs an increase in oil pro duction to ease high heating fuel and gasoline prices that top U.S. officials believe are threat ening world economic growth. Following a meeting in Paris with Norwe gian Oil Minister Maarit Arnstad, Mexican Oil Minister Luis Tellez said that oil inventory lev els, not just prices, would be a key factor in de termining oil output. He is due to meet in London on Thursday with oil • ministers from Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to discuss production strategy in ad vance of the March 27 meeting of the Organiza tion of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The three countries joined to set off the pro duction cutbacks in 1998 that led to Wednesday’s tight crude oil supplies. Mexico is not a member of the 11 -nation oil cartel but has held down pro duction in sympathy. Talk of possible production increases didn’t ease market fears. By late morning, the price of a barrel of crude for delivery in April was up 44 cents at $30.87 — the highest since Jan. 16, 1991 — on the New York Mercantile Exchange. “We’re looking at a very' tight market,” Tellez “Nobody wants abrupt rises and abrupt falls. We want a stable mar ket and a healthy in dustry that can work with adequate prices." — Alvaro Silva Venezuelan Vice Oil Minister said. “Inventories are falling every day. There is a problem in distillates and gasoline inventories as well.” Tellez said a “moderate” increase was need ed soon. “1 see a need for more oil in the market. We need to replenish inventories for a more smooth ly functioning market We need an increase duction for the full year starting April 1,” U.S. Energy Secretary Bill RichardMgji. Tuesday that world production is currently lion barrels a day less than consumption. ! Tellez’s remarks came amid reportsMdij Saudi Arabia and Venezuela were settoprt^ that OPEC increase crude oil production hi million barrels a day. OPEC countriescintiiii produce about 26 million barrels a day— cent of the world’s daily oil production. Venezuela’s vice oil minister denied tlierepi; “This is speculation,” said the ministeu varo Silva, speaking in Caracas. Henotedii the ministers from the three countries “I even met yet.” “Nobody wants abrupt rises and abrupt^ Silva said. “We want a stable market andaheal industry that can work with adequate prices." He said that neither Venezuela north other countries have decided yet on any sped proposal for a production hike by OPEC. 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