Russia's Putin to get oil firms together before OPEC meeting - sources

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin will organise a gathering of domestic oil producers a week before the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries meets on November 30 to discuss possible output curbs, industry sources told Reuters on Friday.

The agenda for the November 23 meeting of the energy industries commission is not clear yet. A Kremlin spokesman did not respond to a request for comment and the Energy Ministry declined to discuss the matter.

Earlier on Friday, the Interfax news agency cited Energy Ministry documents prepared for the commission as saying that the market impact of any deal to cap Russia's oil production at current rates could be short-lived due to a quick recovery in shale oil production in the United States.

Igor Sechin, the head of Rosneft (ROSN.MM) and an ally of Putin, is secretary of the commission.

Russia is working with OPEC to try to hammer out a deal aimed at curbing oil production and oversupply, problems which have dogged global oil markets for the past two years.

A source close to one of the Russian companies, said the meeting had been postponed from Nov. 9 after discussions between Sechin and Putin's aide Andrei Belousov, who is also the chairman of Rosneft.

Sechin is known for his anti-OPEC stance and has repeatedly said that the group has lost its global influence due to a boom in shale oil production in the United States.

Saudi Arabia and its Gulf OPEC allies have expressed a willingness to reduce their peak oil output by 4 percent, energy ministers from the Gulf countries told their Russian counterpart this week.

The 4 percent offer was expected to be formally made at a meeting of OPEC experts and officials from other oil producers, including Russia, during a meeting being held in Vienna on Friday and Saturday.

Five leading Russian oil companies, responsible for three quarters of the output of the world's largest producer, all say they will be boosting output next year after reaching record output levels in recent months.

(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin, Nastya Lyrchikova and Katya Golubkova; Editing by Greg Mahlich)