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OPEC Conference delegates at Swissotel, Quito, Ecuador, December 2010. The OPEC Conference is the supreme authority of the organisation, and consists of delegations normally headed by the oil ministers of member countries. The chief executive of the organisation is the OPEC secretary general. The conference ordinarily meets at the Vienna ...
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.
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]
Pages in category "Member states of OPEC" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Algeria; C.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) comprises countries that have organized to coordinate their petroleum policies for the stabilization of oil markets. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Country Regional organisations Afghanistan ACD, SAARC, ECO Albania OSCE, NATO, Council of Europe, BSEC, SEECP, CEFTA Algeria African Union, Arab League, OPEC Andorra ...
In the 1960s, the Shah initiated the formation and organization of large oil-exporting countries which would become known as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The Shah also sought to terminate the 1954 Consortium Agreement an effort which was finalized with the 1973 Sale and Purchase Agreement. [ 2 ]
Barkindo first became one of Nigeria's delegates to OPEC ministerial conferences in 1986. In 1993, he was appointed as Nigeria's representative on the OPEC economic commission board (ECB). [4] He remained on the board until 2008, and as a delegate until 2010. From 2009 to 2010, he was the Nigerian Governor on the OPEC Board of Governors. [1]