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.

-- DARA OSEI, London