	opec president lukman expects short calm meeting opec conference president rilwanu lukman said he expects next week s ministerial meeting in vienna to be brief and calm and that opec s current price and production agreement may only need a slight review i expect the meeting in vienna to be short and calm lukman who is also nigerian oil minister told reporters here ahead of his departure on sunday for the conference which starts june we already have an agreement which may need only a slight review lukman said the agreement reached at a long session of opec ministers in december last year pegged the group s  oil output at mln bpd for first half at fixed prices of around dlrs a barrel since then prices have risen from dlrs in december to just above the official opec levels with oil industry analysts firmly convinced the organisation will maintain the agreement to keep the market stable i myself believe that opec will tend to take a position to strengthen the gains we have made so far lukman said he declined to say if the current ceiling should be maintained or raised to mln bpd for the third quarter and mln for the fourth as provisionally agreed last december whatever decision we arrive at will be guided by our collective will to keep the market strong he said he said non opec member norway which he visited two weeks ago had pledged further cooperation with the group and this was significant for its members lukman said heavy destocking by consumers early this year when opec s fixed price regime came into effect and a restocking now for the winter was responsible for current market strength reuter 
