Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, second right, followed by OPEC President Chakib Khelil, right, meets OPEC delegates 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. AP Photo logo AP Photo 11 months ago

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, second right, followed by OPEC President Chakib Khelil, right, meets OPEC delegates 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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  1. Algeria's minister of energy and mines Chakib Khelil arrives for the 154th regular meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna on September 9, 2009. OPEC oil ministers met on Wednesday night looking set to hold crude output steady as they wait cautiously for a recovery from the world economic downturn that has battered energy demand.

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  1. Algerian Oil Minister Chakib Khelil attends the opening of the Ministerial Conference of the Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) in Cairo, December 5, 2009.
  2. Algerian Oil Minister Chakib Khelil (R) speaks with Algerian ambassador to Egypt, Abdelkader Hadjar, during the opening of the Ministerial Conference of the Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) in Cairo, December 5, 2009.
  3. Algeria's minister of energy and mines Chakib Khelil arrives for the 154th regular meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna on September 9, 2009. OPEC oil ministers met on Wednesday night looking set to hold crude output steady as they wait cautiously for a recovery from the world economic downturn that has battered energy demand.
  4. Algeria's minister of energy and mines Chakib Khelil attends the 154th regular meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna on September 9, 2009. OPEC oil ministers met on Wednesday night looking set to hold crude output steady as they wait cautiously for a recovery from the world economic downturn that has battered energy demand.
  5. Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil arrives for a meeting of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna September 9, 2009. OPEC was set to keep output targets steady at a meeting late on Wednesday after top exporter Saudi Arabia looked to economic strength to bolster the oil. price and dismissed bulging inventories.
  6. Chakib Khelil, Minister of Energy and Mines from Algeria gestures as he speaks to journalists prior to the start of the 154th meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.
  7. Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (L) shake hands with Cuba's Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura during Bouteflika's departure from Havana's Jose Marti airport September 30, 2009.
  8. Cuba's President Raul Castro and Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) review the honor guard during an official reception ceremony at Havana's Revolution Palace September 29, 2009.
  9. Cuba's President Raul Castro (C) and Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) review the honor guard during an official reception ceremony at Havana's Revolution Palace September 29, 2009.
  10. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika lays a wreath on the Jose Marti monument in Havana, on September 29, 2009. Bouteflika is in Cuba in a three-day official visit.
  11. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) shakes hands with Cuban first Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura during a wreath laying ceremony at Jose Marti monument in Havana, on September 29, 2009. Bouteflika is in Cuba in a three-day official visit.
  12. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) and Cuban first Vice president Jose Ramon Machado Ventura attend a wreath laying ceremony at Jthe ose Marti monument in Havana, on September 29, 2009. Bouteflika is in Cuba in a three-day official visit.
  13. Journalists interview OPEC ministers during the 154th regular meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna on September 9, 2009. OPEC oil ministers met on Wednesday night looking set to hold crude output steady as they wait cautiously for a recovery from the world economic downturn that has battered energy demand.
  14. Journalists interview OPEC ministers during the 154th regular meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna on September 9, 2009. OPEC oil ministers met on Wednesday night looking set to hold crude output steady as they wait cautiously for a recovery from the world economic downturn that has battered energy demand.
  15. OPEC president Eng Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos of Angola opens the 154th regular meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna on September 9, 2009. OPEC oil ministers met on Wednesday night looking set to hold crude output steady as they wait cautiously for a recovery from the world economic downturn that has battered energy demand.
  16. OPEC president Eng JoseMaria Botelho de Vasconcelos of Angola (L) and OPEC Secretary General Abdalla Salem El-Badri (R) of Libya open the 154th regular meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna on September 9, 2009. OPEC oil ministers met on Wednesday night looking set to hold crude output steady as they wait cautiously for a recovery from the world economic downturn that has battered energy demand.

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