VOL. XLIII

No. 13

27-March-2000

OPEC

OPEC Seeks Consensus On Oil Increase And Hopes To Achieve Soft Landing On Prices

Intensive consultations between OPEC Heads of State and Oil Ministers under the added impetus of unrelenting diplomatic pressure from Washington have been proceeding apace and are set to continue right up to the starting gate of OPECs ministerial conference on 27 March in Vienna, where it is expected that the OPEC 10 (excluding Iraq) will agree to raise their oil output by...