	kuwait says no opec member violating output quota kuwaiti oil minister sheikh ali al khalifa al sabah said in a newspaper interview that no opec member was exceeding oil production quotas allocated by the nation group sheikh ali told kuwait s daily al anba all opec states without exception are producing within the quotas allocated to them some of them are producing less some oil industry sources had said the united arab emirates which had been generally been producing over its quota since opec returned to quotas last september was still pumping more than its allotted amount in the first months of this year ecuador had also publicly stated it was over its quota but an earthquake early this month stopped that iraq has rejected its quota but oil sources say it may be having problems marketing at official prices all the oil it wants to sell opec agreed in december to cut overall oil production by pct to mln barrels per day bpd for the first six months of this year and abide by fixed prices around dlrs a barrel from february reuter 
