	venezuela sees flat oil price despite u s attack world oil prices would remain stable despite the u s attack against iranian oil platforms and growing tension in the gulf venezuelan energy minister arturo hernandez grisanti said on monday he described the situation as extremely tense but said gulf military activity would not significantly affect prices because supply and demand were roughly equal demand for opec  in the final quarter of was mln barrels per day bpd and the group s members were now pumping above mln bpd he told a news conference hernandez grisanti said the supply demand balance was precarious and prices were in danger of falling from their current average of about dlrs per barrel if overproduction continued three or four members of the nation organisation of petroleum exporting countries were overproducing in an exaggerated manner above their assigned quotas he said opec s overall ceiling is mln bpd reuter 
