/ 20 March 2001

OPEC TO CUT OUTPUT BY 1M BPD

THE Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will cut oil output by around one million barrels per day (bpd) on Friday, acting Libyan oil minister Ahmed Abdulkarim Ahmed said. “The cut is going to be around one million (bpd) to keep stability in the market,” he told reporters as he arrived in Vienna for a meeting of the oil-exporting group. – AFP