President seeks ‘alliance’ of OPEC, non-OPEC producers U.S. ‘can’t be isolated’ from discussion on global oil glut Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro wants to invite the U.S. to OPEC’s next meeting, saying the world’s biggest crude producer should be in on talks to stabilize global crude prices. Maduro, whose country holds the globe’s biggest oil reserves, said on Venezuelan state television Friday that he’s pushing for an “alliance” of OPEC and non-OPEC members, including the U.S. and “the most important oil companies in the world.” In talks with other nations, “they proposed inviting the government of the U.S. to the next OPEC meeting, and I agreed with that, because they are a big producer and they can’t be isolated from this and be lured by analysts, warmongers, or anti-Russia sectors,” Maduro said on the program. The statement came during a visit to Azerbaijan, Maduro’s first […]