OPEC not likely to boost output

Thursday, September 19, 2002

OSAKA, Japan -- Pushing aside worries in the West about high oil prices, several petroleum ministers said Wednesday that OPEC was lined up to keep its production of crude steady for now, and blamed the recent price pinch on talk of war in Iraq rather than imbalanced supply.

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