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OPEC Boosts ’06 Demand Forecast

The world will need OPEC’s oil even more this winter and next year as high oil prices have failed to slow galloping economic growth, the producer group said on Wednesday.

OPEC bumped up its world oil demand forecast for 2006 in its monthly report, and also said demand for its own oil in the fourth quarter of this year would be 276,000 bpd higher than previously expected, Reuters reported.

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