New York - Nigeria will call an extraordinary meeting of Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) if crude oil prices slip any further, the country's oil minister said in an interview with the Financial Times, in a sign of growing alarm over the impact of oil's collapse on oil-producing economies.
"We're already talking with member countries," said Diezani Alison-Madueke in the interview published on Monday. As Opec president, she is responsible for liaising with member countries and the producer group's secretary-general in the event of an emergency meeting.
If the price "slips any further it is highly likely that I will have to call an extraordinary meeting of Opec in the next six weeks or so", she said.