2009/06/12

Qatar to Host First Meeting of Gas OPEC

Qatar to Host First Meeting of Gas OPEC
The first ministerial meeting of the OPEC-like gas forum will be held in Qatar on June 30, Iran's OPEC governor announced on Monday.


"Topics such as financial issues, budget and personnel of the oil ministries of exporting, countries will be discussed and studied (at the meeting)", Iran's Governor at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Mohammad Ali Khatibi told FNA about the upcoming meeting of the Organization of Gas Exporting Countries (OGEC).

He further reminded that the statute of the gas forum had been ratified by the ministers of the gas exporting countries last December in Moscow.

Noting that Qatar has invited all the member countries to the meeting, Khatibi predicted that the ministers of all gas exporting countries would attend the conference.

"The Qatar conference is the first ministerial meeting after ratifying the statute of the gas exporting countries in Moscow," he added.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei proposed the idea of setting up "an organization of gas cooperation like OPEC" in 2007.

Gas exporting states have so far finalized establishment of a new Qatar-based forum which aims to coordinate the member states' policies while consumer countries fear that the forum could become the gas equivalent of oil cartel OPEC.

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