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Oil prices mixed ahead of Libya s return to market

NEW YORK, Dec 14 (BSS/AFP) – Oil prices traded mixed yesterday as Libya was expected to begin exporting more crude
into a market already flush with supply.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, West Texas Intermediate crude for January delivery fell 90 cents to $96.60 a barrel.
In London, Brent North Sea crude for January finished 16 cents higher at $108.83.

Traders were waiting to see if a Libyan tribe leader’s
pledge to open up its crude terminals on December 15 would hold
up, after his followers kept a blockade on the installations for
months.

The protests and blockades of fuel deliveries by the Berber
minority slashed Libya’s output to about 250,000 barrels per day,
from normal levels of nearly 1.5 million barrels per day.

Libya’s light crude is valued in European refineries.

Andy Lipow of Lipow Oil Associates said the US hitting its
highest level of production in 25 years, with more gains
predicted for next year, was also keeping downward pressure on
prices.

The US Energy Information Administration said that American
crude output had reached 8.075 million barrels per day, and would
rise to an average of 8.5 million barrels per day next year.

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