1.   OPEC representatives are to meet Wednesday at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, to review market conditions for crude and set their output policy for the coming months.

2.   Driving home that point, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said Friday that OPEC should let the need to promote economic growth guide its output policy.

3.   However, the OPEC Secretariat said the next meeting was to be administrative and not an interim review of output policy.

4.   However, the OPEC Secretariat said the June meeting was to be administrative in nature and not an interim review of output policy.

5.   However, the OPEC Secretariat said the June meeting would be administrative in nature and not an interim review of output policy.

6.   Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali Naimi said economic data he had seen made it clear that OPEC needed to stick with its current output policy.

7.   The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will assess its output policy when its representatives meet Friday in Vienna.

8.   The representatives were meeting at OPEC headquarters in Vienna to ratify the common position on output policy they forged earlier in the day at an informal session.

9.   While not an OPEC member, Mexico in recent years has coordinated its output policy with the cartel to successfully shore up global oil prices.

10.   The price rise will be welcomed by OPEC ministers, who are to gather in Vienna on Friday to discuss output policy.