Seven OPEC members kept October output unchanged from September after a Sunday meeting. [1] OPEC posted the Sept. 6 statement. [1] Reuters had previewed the hold. [2] Tuesday has no new communique in fetched copy. A quiet Vienna is not a surprise cut. Print no new sheet. Do not print a quota vote.

Oil approaching 100 without clearing it is a price, not a Vienna table. Leave a later 100 to Wednesday. Print no new sheet. Print not a cut.

Print no new sheet. Tuesday is not a Vienna cut. Sunday's hold remains the last named communique. Leave a later 100 to Wednesday. Print no new sheet as the named Tuesday hold. China demand destruction on another page is a buffer, not a quota. Print no new sheet as Tuesday's named OPEC hold.

Approaching 100 without clearing it is the market knocking; Vienna hasn't answered. Sunday's hold stands. Tuesday hears the knock.

Unanswered knocks echo; Tuesday's echoes. Echoes hold. Vienna answers on its schedule.

Vienna's schedule is Sunday's freeze; Tuesday hears a knock at 100 without clearing it. Quotas wait. China buffers another page.

Tuesday's named OPEC hold is Sunday's freeze. The market knocks at 100. Vienna hasn't answered.

Sunday's statement from seven members still freezes October at September's level. Vienna posted nothing newer on Tuesday. A price approaching 100 is not an emergency session. Quota votes require a communique this page does not have.
Sunday's freeze still holds October at September's level. Vienna posted nothing newer on Tuesday. Brent short of 100 does not summon a session.

Vienna posted nothing newer on Tuesday. Tuesday's OPEC file is still Sunday's freeze, not a session. Brent short of 100 still does not summon Vienna.

-- DARA OSEI, London