Iran's Minister of Petroleum Gholam Hossein Nozari, left, is

Iran's Minister of Petroleum Gholam Hossein Nozari, left, is welcomed by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, center, as OPEC president Chakib Khelil, of Algeria, right, looks on at the OPEC meeting in Oran, western Algeria, Wednesday Dec. 17, 2008. OPEC oil ministers say they will likely approve a cut of 2 million barrels a day from their output as of early next year and major non-OPEC producers will likely take hundreds of thousands more barrels off the market.
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