Platts The Barrel: Who cares about OPEC compliance? Not OPEC

It was pretty clear in the runup to OPEC's September 9 meeting that ministers were not going to change quotas.

But, given that there had been a lot of comments from OPEC ministers about falling adherence to those quotas and high inventories in the industrialized countries, it had been expected that the communique would call for stricter compliance.