"OPEC countries have been accelerating investment, expanding their production capacity to meet rising demand, and build comfortable spare capacity, which is expected to reach 2.5-mil b/d in 2005," the group's President Sheikh Ahmed Fahad al-Sabah said during his opening address to the OPEC meeting in Kuwait City. "OPEC will add another 1-mil b/d of capacity by 2006."

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