41.   OPEC Secretary General Ali Rodriguez urged member states and rival oil-producing countries Thursday to maintain output cuts in order to support oil prices.

42.   OPEC arranged the output cuts to rescue prices, which tumbled heavily last year amid a general economic slowdown.

43.   Russia said Sunday it would extend until June oil output cuts it introduced at the start of the year as part of a producer pact to shore up prices.

44.   The cartel had linked its output cuts to cuts made by non-OPEC countries, like Mexico, Norway and Russia.

45.   The company said it was positioned benefit from the firmer prices flowing from agreed output cuts introduced by world producers earlier in the year.

46.   The commission must still find another three million tonnes of output cuts to keep its plan alive.

47.   The expected output cut was reportedly agreed to after OPEC secured promises from non-OPEC producers of a reduction of nearly half a million barrels.

48.   The Iranian minister said he was hopeful that Russia will stick to its own output cuts.

49.   The government was forced to order the output cuts in July to stabilise a market rocked by swelling stockpiles and illegal imports.

50.   The price of oil made modest gains here on Friday on a brighter economic outlook and the possibility of more OPEC output cuts.