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    The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC, /ˈoʊpɛk/ OH-pek) is an organization enabling the co-operation of leading oil-producing countries...
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    Petroleum (section OPEC)
    What is OPEC?". www.weforum.org. Retrieved March 30, 2024. "OPEC: Member Countries". opec.org. Retrieved April 22, 2020. Cohen, Ariel. "OPEC Is Dead,...
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    Countries (OPEC), was founded by five oil producing countries at a Baghdad conference on September 14, 1960. The five founding members of OPEC were Venezuela...
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    overlapping 35% came from the twelve current OPEC members. Members of OPEC+, which includes current OPEC members produce about 60% of the world's petroleum...
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    semi-annual meeting of OPEC leaders in Vienna, Austria; the attackers took more than 60 hostages after killing an Austrian policeman, an Iraqi OPEC security officer...
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  • Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), based on the organization's official publications.[needs update] The secretary general is OPEC's chief executive officer...
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  • by major oil companies. Since then, industry dominance has shifted to the OPEC cartel and state-owned oil and gas companies, such as Saudi Aramco, Gazprom...
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    May 2021). "OPEC at 60: the world with and without OPEC". OPEC Energy Review. 45 (1): 3–28. Bibcode:2021OEnRv..45....3E. doi:10.1111/opec.12205. ISSN 1753-0229...
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    The OPEC Reference Basket (ORB), also referred to as the OPEC Basket, is a weighted average of prices for petroleum blends produced by OPEC members. It...
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  • The OPEC Fund for International Development (OPEC Fund) is an intergovernmental development finance institution established in 1976 by the member states...
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    preeminent position, and by 1981, its production was surpassed by non-OPEC countries. OPEC had seen its share of the world market drop to less than a third...
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    intend to create a gas cartel equivalent to OPEC which would set quotas and prices. The idea of a gas OPEC was first floated by Russian President Vladimir...
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    oil, creating an informal alliance of OPEC and non-OPEC producers that was dubbed "OPEC+." By January 2020, OPEC+ had cut oil production by 2.1 million...
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  • alleged that Sheffield illegally colluded with OPEC and a related cartel of oil-producing countries known as OPEC+ to raise oil prices at the expense of US...
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    kilometers), the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) (49000 km3), and OPEC (48810 km3). However, BP credits Russia with only 32900 km3, which would...
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  • are popular shorthand for revenues from petroleum exports, mainly from the OPEC members plus Russia and Norway. Especially during periods of historically...
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    benefited a few members of the Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (OPEC), which made record profits. Under the new Iranian government, oil exports...
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    March 2020. "OPEC : OPEC 173rd Meeting concludes". www.opec.org. Retrieved 6 March 2020. "OPEC : OPEC 175th Meeting concludes". www.opec.org. Retrieved...
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    Saudi Arabia (category Member states of OPEC)
    of Islamic Cooperation, Arab League, Arab Air Carriers' Organization and OPEC. Saudi Arabia is a dialogue partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation...
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  • Ibe Kachikwu (section OPEC)
    past president of the OPEC conference with a tenure that expired in January 2016. He has chaired the 168th Meeting of the OPEC Conference held in Vienna...
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  • Megacorpstate (section OPEC)
    market power. The most prominent organizations within the structure are OPEC and the Seven Sisters that include Exxon, Mobil, Socal, Royal Dutch-Shell...
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    founding member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, like many ancient societies already...
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  • January 1: The OPEC crude oil production quota cuts of 1.5 million barrels (240,000 m3) per day, announced on December 28, officially go into effect for...
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    Mohammed Barkindo (category Secretaries General of OPEC)
    of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. He helped to create the OPEC+ alliance between OPEC members and other oil-producing countries. Barkindo previously...
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  • Belarus's high employment rate and a source of stable employment. In most OPEC countries, the governments own the oil companies operating on their soil...
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    revenues of OPEC also took a hit since they priced oil in dollars. Finally OPEC started pricing oil against gold to combat the situation. But OPEC still struggled...
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    Nigerian politician and the first female President of OPEC. She was elected at the 166th OPEC Ordinary meeting in Vienna on 27 November 2014. She became...
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  • June 2016, according to the Office of the Private Education Commission (OPEC), which regulates the operation of all private schools in the country. This...
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    Ahmed Zaki Yamani (category OPEC people)
    and a minister in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for 25 years. With degrees from institutions including New York University...
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    consume little oil and export most of their production, they are part of OPEC. Venezuela had a big drop in production after 2015 (where it produced 2.5...
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