BUEROENSTOCK (Switzerland). Sept 8: OPEC Secretary General Subroto expects Kuwait s crude oil output to rise to between 250.000 and 300,000 Barrels Per Day (Bl’D) by the end of this year, he said 4()p Friday, reports Reuter.

He also estimated Iraq's output would climb to around one million BPD by the end of the year.

"We will use these estimates when we talk about production ceilings at the Geneva meeting on September 24." he told Reuter, referring to the planned gathering of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) monitoring committee later this month.

Subroto. in Bucrgenstock for a futures and options conference, said current Kuwaiti output was 170,000 BPD,

while Iraq's was 350,000 to 400.000 BPD.

Asked how Iraq might be affected by a UN resolution effectively restricting Its output to 500.000 BPD. he replied, ’we don t know when this resolution starts. "

He estimated workf oil demand, excluding Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, would run at 53.72 million BPD in the fourth quarter

Addressing the conference later, Subroto repeated previous comments that OPEC would have to pump around 30 million BPD to meet rising world oil demand by the year 2000.

If crude prices fell to below 21 Dollars per Barrel then world oil demand was expected to increase and might reach some 57 million BPD by 1995, Subroto said.