VOL. XLIV

No. 11

12-March-2001

OPEC

OPEC To Debate How Much To Cut Production

Since there is a consensus among OPEC oil ministers on the need to cut production, all they will have to do when they meet in Vienna on 16 March is decide by how much. While this may seem an easy decision, nonetheless the meeting comes at a time when the market is being moved by a complex interplay of pressures, making the choice of the right level of cutbacks both difficult and critical to the market balance going...