President of OPEC and Algeria's Minister of Energy and

President of OPEC and Algeria's Minister of Energy and Mines Chakib Khelil (L) and OPEC secretary general Abdalla Salem El-Badri (R) attend a press-conference after a meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on October 24, 2008 in Vienna. OPEC decided to slash its oil output by 1.5 million barrels per day from November 1, at an emergency meeting here on Friday in a move which sent crude prices tumbling.
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