41.   Earlier a Saudi official said OPEC would maintain crude production ceilings when ministers meet in Vienna.

42.   Earlier a Saudi official said OPEC would maintain crude production ceilings.

43.   This is unless the OPEC members decide to reduce their production ceiling, an unlikely development.

44.   Number three Norway has indicated it too will raise production ceilings starting in the third quarter of this year.

45.   The advantages of maintaining the production ceiling would still depend on Iraq remaining outside the market in the first six months of next year, MEES said.

46.   The minister said the projected sharp rise in capacity will prompt Qatar to ask for a higher production ceiling.