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Government representatives from Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, ... Iraq has remained a member of OPEC since the organization's founding, but Iraqi production was not a part of ...
List of OPEC secretaries general No. Name Country Tenure 1: Fuad Rouhani [A] Iran [B] 21 Jan 1961 – 30 Apr 1964 2: Abdul Rahman al-Bazzaz [A] Iraq [B] 1 May 1964 – 30 Apr 1965 3: Ashraf T. Lutfi Kuwait [B] 1 May 1965 – 31 Dec 1966 4: Mohammad Saleh Joukhdar Saudi Arabia [B] 1 Jan 1967 – 31 Dec 1967 5: Francisco R. Parra Venezuela [B]
On 9 January 1968, three of the then–most conservative Arab oil states – Kuwait, Libya, and Saudi Arabia – agreed at a conference in Beirut, Lebanon to found the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, aiming to separate the production and sale of oil from politics in the wake of the halfhearted 1967 oil embargo in response to the Six-Day War.
In 1973, Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries brought the U.S. economy to its knees. Since Saudi Arabia and other Arab OPEC members imposed their famous oil embargo as ...
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. It has since expanded to 12 ...
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ... Member states of OPEC (1 C, 12 P) P. OPEC people (1 C, 11 P) Pages in category "OPEC"
The Organization of Oil Exporting Countries -- better known as OPEC -- has been a dominant player in the oil market since it was formed in 1960. The 12 member countries have provided over 40% of ...
By a unanimous decision a Russian national was elected its secretary general. This is to show that member countries expect Russia to use its political weight to promote it." [citation needed] Creation of the Gas OPEC was one of the topics of the first GECF summit. However, some GECF's members are concerned over the gas exports to be politicized ...