EghtesadOnline: Noureddine Boutarfa , the Algerian oil minister who hosted this week’s OPEC meeting, resorted to one of the oldest tricks in the dealmaker’s book: He put his fellow ministers in the same hotel in the middle of nowhere.

EghtesadOnline: Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, has offered to cut its output to January levels, Algeria’s energy minister said as he prepared to host a meeting of OPEC producers later this week.

EghtesadOnline: Oil price of 50 dollars per barrel is not acceptable and we are going to discuss the issue with OPEC member states, says Algerian Minister of Energy, Noureddine Boutarfa .