11.   He then contacted Erwin Arrieta, oil minister of Venezuela, a founding member of OPEC.

12.   He will be replaced as OPEC president by the Algerian oil minister, Chakib Khelil, OPEC officials said.

13.   He would not say whom he had met, but others said he saw both the Libyan and Iraqi oil ministers on Monday.

14.   Herbish is considered an important conduit for expressing the views of Ali Naimi, the Saudi oil minister.

15.   Ida Bagus Sudjana, the Indonesian oil minister and also president of OPEC, checked into his hotel in Vienna today.

16.   In opening the meeting Monday, President Suharto of Indonesia urged the oil ministers to agree to steps that would lift oil prices.

17.   In the end, the two Iranians and several oil ministers stormed out of the closed-door meeting, and OPEC was forced to delay the announcement of the agreement.

18.   In Vienna, OPEC ended its summer meeting, with oil ministers renewing their pledge to cut production to boost prices.

19.   Indeed half the cast of oil ministers remains unchanged.

20.   Indonesia is sending its oil minister, who also is president of OPEC, to the talks and Venezuela has included a lower-level diplomat.