The Senate Finance Committee has proposed cutting the oil price benchmark in the 2015 budget to $52 a barrel from its current $65, Reuters reported quoting a source at parliament.
The Ministry of Finance had previously said that the benchmark would not change. With an election coming up on Marc
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