New faces but policies set to stay at OPEC

Less than a month before OPEC meets to set oil output for peak winter demand, countries accounting for almost a third of production are either without an energy minister or getting used to a new one.

OPEC’s second biggest producer Iran installed a caretaker oil minister on Sunday after President Mahmoud Ahmaninejad abruptly announced the departure of Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh.