OPEC AND OIL PRICES

Norway Pursues Oil Contacts with OPEC Members

Non-OPEC Norway, where the new Labor government recently indicated its readiness to cooperate with OPEC in efforts to stabilize the oil market (MEES, 26 May), will be holding high-level talks with two leading OPEC exporters - Venezuela and Saudi Arabia - before the Organization's next ministerial conference convenes in Brioni, Yugoslavia, on 25 June.

As far as Venezuela is concerned, a Norwegian delegation led by the...