"OPEC ministers meeting in Vienna Wednesday are likely to agree to leave current crude production levels unchanged for the time being due to high prices, a move that would allow oil stocks to rise,"
-Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Fahed al-Sabah said Tuesday.

 
"Of course we will follow up prices because the reason why we didn't cut (output this time) is the prices. If the prices are back to being related to demand and supply, there will be a decrease in prices for the second quarter--maybe then we would have to take action to cut production,"
- Sheikh Ahmed told reporters as he left Kuwait to head for the OPEC meeting in Austria. 		 
 

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