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Gabon - February 19, 2024
Gabon Oil Company will buy the Carlyle Group’s Assala Energy Holdings for USD 1.3 billion.
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BACK TOCOMPANIES
OPEC
H.E. Mohammad Sanusi BARKINDO
Secretary General
OPEC
OPEC remains fully engaged and supportive of the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement.
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A fine balance
OPEC is an international organisation that was established in Baghdad in September 1960. Today it is headquartered in Vienna, Austria. It co-ordinates and unifies the petroleum policies of its members. OPEC sets production targets for its member nations and is an important factor affecting global oil prices. Iran is one of the five founding members of the organisation.
- Leadership: OPEC’s secretary-general is Haitham Al-Ghais a Kuwaiti oil official who is a veteran fo the industry.
- Members: Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Venezuela
OPEC+, a designation that adds 10 non-OPEC members including Russia, reached a deal in September 2016 to cut approximately 1 million bopd of production. The deal was extended several times and deepened to 7.7 million bopd for August-December 2020.
Company website: www.opec.org
OPEC in figures
Years active as of 2020:60
Number of member states:13
OPEC features
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Multinational - March 04, 2024
Several OPEC+ members have extended voluntary oil production cuts of 2.2 million bpd into Q2 2024.
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Saudi Arabia - February 13, 2024
Saudi Arabia has attributed its recent production capacity benchmark to the energy transition.
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Kuwait - February 08, 2024
The giant Al Zour refinery in Kuwait has reached full capacity for the first time.
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Saudi Arabia - January 30, 2024
Saudi Aramco has received orders from the government to set its maximum sustainable capacity to 12 million bpd.
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Multinational - January 18, 2024
Both OPEC and the International Energy Agency (IEA) have forecast a rise in global oil consumption in 2024, Reuters reported on Thursday.
The IEA has raised its…
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Nigeria - April 03, 2023
Segun Sowande, partner and head of energy and natural resources for KPMG in Nigeria, talks to The Energy Year about challenges in the Nigerian oil and gas industry and…
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Angola - December 22, 2023
Angola has decided to leave intergovernmental oil organization OPEC following production cut agreements, the country’s Minister for Mineral Resources, Petroleum and…
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Qatar - December 14, 2023
Qatar concluded the twelfth annual Arab Energy Conference in Doha with OPEC’s oil ministers in attendance, local news reported on Tuesday.
The conference ran from…
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