	kuwait sees opec output over ceiling to end year opec output for the second half of including that of iraq will be above the official mln barrels per day bpd output ceiling agreed by opec saturday kuwait oil minister sheikh ali al khalifa al sabah said iraq refused to sign the pact by which opec maintained its ceiling at mln bpd for both the third and fourth quarters of in december opec set a provisional fourth quarter level of mln bpd now cut back to the third quarter target ali told a news conference that including iraq opec third quarter output will be between and mln bpd while fourth quarter output will be nearly mln bpd ali did not detail what effect he thought these production levels would have on prices iraq has an official first half quota of mln bpd rising to mln in the second half but has refused to adhere to it and has recently been producing around two mln barrels per day exporting it through pipelines to saudi arabia and turkey iraq s export capacity will be further boosted when a bpd oil pipeline via turkey comes on stream in about september iraq has been insisting on a quota equal to its gulf war enemy iran which has a quota of mln bpd rising to mln in the second half ali said the position of the bpd production from the neutral zone between saudi arabia and kuwait which has been supplied to iraq as war relief  was fixed we will not discuss it there will not be any change he said ali said the conference which began thursday and ended saturday evening had been too short for all necessary problems to be adressed we are overdoing it in holding too short a meeting we sweep a lot under the carpet he said ali said the problem of price differentials between the prices of various opec s had not been dealt with properly at the meeting ali said the problem of differentials is a real one i would hate to be producing today a light  and that problem has not been dealt with properly light s are overpriced relative to heavy s asked if the issue of differentials would be raised at the next opec meeting to be held in vienna on december ali said if my s are affected i will raise the issue i will not do the work of another minister kuwait s own s range from medium to heavy grades opec reintroduced fixed prices on february with a spread of dlrs a barrel between its lightest and heaviest s reuter 
