OPEC: OIL PRICE WAR

Members of OPEC, the group that supplies 40 percent of the world's oil, are engaged in an internal price war as they seek to preserve their share of an oversupplied market, Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said.
"There is a price war within OPEC," Abdul Mahdi told an evening session of the parliament in Baghdad yesterday, which was broadcast on state-run television. "The market's fundamentals have changed, with an extra 3 million barrels a day of crude entering the market at a time when growth in China and India has slowed."
Crude prices have collapsed more than 20 percent from their June peak, meeting a…
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