Norway shifted its policy toward OPEC.
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Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland’s minority Labor Party government, which took office Friday, offered to cooperate with OPEC in trying to boost world oil prices, provided the 13-member cartel agrees to cut its own crude oil production. Norway, Western Europe’s second-largest oil producer, had previously sided with fellow North Sea producer Britain in rejecting OPEC calls for production cuts. Norway produces 900,000 barrels a day.
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