Norway shifted its policy toward OPEC.
Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland’s minority Labor Party government, which took office Friday, offered to cooperate with OPEC in trying to boost world oil prices, provided the 13-member cartel agrees to cut its own crude oil production. Norway, Western Europe’s second-largest oil producer, had previously sided with fellow North Sea producer Britain in rejecting OPEC calls for production cuts. Norway produces 900,000 barrels a day.
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