A raft of comments coming in from various members as they file into the meeting

  • Iraq says they are for the unity of OPEC
  • Venezuela says they will propose OPEC cuts and the market is oversupplied by 2mbpd, says shale oil is a disaster
  • Qatar sees harmony among members and no crisis and
  • Algeria says they are willing to cut output
  • Ecuador says oil market is oversupplied

While it’s looking highly unlikely we’ll get wholesale production cuts we could well get some piecemeal moves to appease some of the members. It’s a small risk.

For oil buffs, there’s an OPEC webcast running which you can find here (h/t Livesquawk & reader Brad)