61.   Any increase in actual oil production will be more modest because of the widespread cheating on current production quotas.

62.   Before Chavez, Venezuela had been a consistent overproducer, regularly exceeding its OPEC production quotas.

63.   Cheating on production quotas has been a chronic problem.

64.   Chavez gained credibility among OPEC countries by helping engineer those cuts and ordering Venezuela to comply with its production quota.

65.   Concern that OPEC member nations were not holding to their production quotas sent crude oil futures prices plummeting Thursday on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

66.   Confronting a plunge in oil prices, OPEC ministers said Wednesday they would stop cheating on their individual production quotas.

67.   Edgar Paredes said Venezuela had lost market share by strictly adhering to OPEC production quotas.

68.   For now, Iraq probably will want to set its formal production quota as high as possible to give it more bargaining power later.

69.   He accused some other OPEC member states of causing the fall in prices by failing to stick to production quotas.

70.   He insists PDVSA employees must conform to state oil policy, which centers on strict compliance with production quotas imposed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.