Example sentences for: opec

How can you use “opec” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When OPEC raised its prices far above its production costs, it made sense to develop fields that previously had been too expensive.

  • OPEC's production decisions still make a splash on the spot-price and futures markets, which have also been roiled by the announcement that Iraq will be allowed to resume its oil-for-food sales.

  • According to the Journal piece, the main reason oil prices have spiked to $25 a barrel--the highest in nearly 10 years--is that there's been more compliance than usual with OPEC's current effort to cut production.

  • When OPEC met at the end of last month and decided to expand its production quota by 2.5 million barrels a day, the announcement was front-page news, but the contrast with OPEC meetings of two decades ago could not have been sharper.

  • Instead of a tightly disciplined cartel administering prices to a supine world market, OPEC more closely resembles a fractious trade association struggling to bring supply in line with demand even as its efforts are sabotaged by its own members.


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