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Three takeaways from this week’s OPEC meeting / Blake Clayton, Energy, security and climate, December 14, 2012http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/2012/12/14/three-takeaways-from-this-weeks-opec-meetingOPEC ministers met in Vienna on Wednesday to discuss the current oil market outlook and make a decision about future production levels, as well as to select a new secretary general. After deliberating, the group opted not to alter the current production ceiling of 30 million barrels per day (though they are currently pumping more than that). Nor could they agree on a replacement for the current secretary general, Abdalla Salem el-Badr, a Libyan national, choosing instead to extend his tenure an additional year starting next month...