91.   Ministers and representatives of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries meet in Vienna on Wednesday and prices and production levels will be the center of attention.

92.   Oil export earnings have fallen in response to falling world oil prices, in spite of boosted production levels.

93.   OPEC is widely expected to extend current production levels, which would keep supplies tight.

94.   OPEC leaders remain tightlipped about whether crude production levels will be adjusted anytime soon, suggesting they are comfortable with current prices.

95.   Other large automakers in the country are also cutting their production levels.

96.   OPEC said its new production levels will stay in effect for one year.

97.   Richardson told a news conference after the meeting that U.S. officials were worried about production levels and the low level of oil inventories.

98.   Production levels and quotas for the individual OPEC members are also off the agenda, according to Indonesian oil minister Ida Bagus Sudjana, now serving as OPEC president.

99.   Prices and production levels will be the center of attention.

100.   Russia, though, has said it will review its production levels in mid-May, he added.