101.   The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed Tuesday to stick with its existing production quotas and to meet again in September to review market conditions at that time.

102.   The Saudis have not flexed their muscle for some time within OPEC, which for years routinely has rolled over the same old production quotas.

103.   Then, OPEC must decide how to dole out any increase by giving new production quotas to each member.

104.   Throw in the perennial cheating on production quotas and a mild winter in key heating oil markets, and OPEC finds itself in a difficult bind.

105.   Under Chavez, Lameda said, PDVSA sacrificed profit and efficiency to conform to OPEC production quotas.

106.   Under Chavez, Venezuela has become one of the staunchest adherents to OPEC production quotas.

107.   Under the proposal, the government would no longer set production quotas.

108.   Venezuela has been a consistent overproducer, favoring volume over price, and regularly exceeding its OPEC production quotas, until Chavez brought it back into line.

109.   Venezuelan oil minister Erwin Arrieta has repeatedly denied violating production quotas, and he rushed past journalists early Thursday with no comment on the report.

110.   He slammed efforts by competitors to get the Russian government to fix production quotas for each oil group.