21.   Though prices have risen this month, with expectations that OPEC will curtail production, cost controls still are in place.

22.   To be sure, supplies of crude oil are building amid abundant inventories of heating oil, allowing refineries to curtail production.

23.   OPEC members Iraq, Venezuela and Qatar have taken the lead in calling for the group to curtail production further in hopes of buttressing prices.

24.   Q The recent turmoil in Southeast Asia has resulted in Toyota having to curtail production in Thailand and Indonesia.

25.   Algerian oil minister Youcef Yousfi said Thursday that if the lower production fails to improve the market, then the exporters might agree to curtail production more sharply.

26.   Another prime initiative of his administration was to curtail production of cocaine and heroin by massive fumigation of the crops that produce the drugs.

27.   However, about a dozen refineries have scheduled refinery maintenance in January, which could significantly curtail gasoline production and cause a tightening of supplies.

28.   Iraq could curtail production to take advantage of current uncertainty, the report said.

29.   Its discipline in curtailing production since its last meeting has caused world prices to rise sharply.

30.   Mexico, Oman and Angola have already promised to curtail their production.