VOL. XLIV

No 41

8-October-2001

OPEC

OPEC ContinuingContacts With Other Producers

MEES learns that at their conference in Vienna on 26-27September the OPEC oil ministers agreed to form a ministerial contact group composed of Algerian Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil (current OPECPresident), Presidential Adviser on Petroleum and Energy of Nigeria and Head ofNigerian Delegation to OPEC Rilwanu Lukman (incoming OPEC President with effectfrom 1 January 2002), and Iranian Petroleum Minister...