VOL. XXXI

NO. 33

23-MAY-1988

OPEC/NON-OPEC

Venezuelan Oil Minister Criticizes Negative Outcome of ViennaMeeting

Venezuela's Minister of Energy and Mines, Dr. Arturo Hernandez Grisanti,believes that if OPEC had accepted the non-OPEC producers' proposal for a joint5% cut in production "it would have had a tremendous positivepsychological impact on the market, apart from meaning that production in thesecond quarter would be cut by some 500,000 b/d which would have a tangiblephysical effect."...