So the 160 journalists in Vienna covering the 156th meeting of Opec, the oil cartel, dutifully linked yesterday's rise in oil prices to the group's decision to keep quotas flat.

所以，在维也纳报道石油卡特尔组织欧佩克（Opec） 156届部长级会议的160名记者，规矩地将昨日油价的上涨，与该集团维持原油日产配额不变的决定联系了起来。

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Russia and the members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the oil cartel, cut their dollar holdings from 67 per cent in the first quarter to 65 per cent in the second.

俄罗斯和石油输出国组织(OPEC，欧佩克)成员国纷纷将其美元储备比例从第一季度的67%，削减至第二季度的65%。

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It no longer exports oil and will officially drop out of the cartel at the year's end.

该国已经不再出口石油，并将于年底正式退出欧佩克。

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The talks were chaired by Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, a former head of the oil cartel Opec.

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Producers outside the oil cartel, especially Russia and the 'stans, began pumping more.

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More likely, say others close to Opec, the oil cartel is a differently composed, more economically sophisticated organisation than it was 25 years ago.

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