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Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries

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390:, including Iran. OAPEC resolved to cut oil production by 5% monthly "until the Israeli forces are completely evacuated from all the Arab territories occupied in the June 1967 war". The embargo would last for some five months before it was lifted in March 1974 after negotiations at the Washington Oil Summit. The embargo's after-effects would linger through the rest of the decade and beyond. For the oil-exporting countries, the embargo was the first experience of leveraging their collective production for political gains. A number of the member nations would use this sense of control to renegotiate the contracts they had made with the companies that had discovered and exploited their resources. The vastly increased revenues would prove addictive, and a unified OAPEC oil embargo was never again possible. 211: 371:, considering OAPEC too conservative. Equally the three founders considered Iraq too radical to be desirable as a member. However, by early 1972, the criterion for admission had changed to oil being a significant source of revenue (rather than the principal source) of a prospective member nation; and Algeria, Iraq, Syria and Egypt had been admitted. Consequently, OAPEC became a much more activist organization, contrary to the original intention. 187: 49: 424:
organization's goals and actions are being achieved and implemented. The Executive Bureau assists the Council of Ministers by meet at least three times a year to review the budget, approve staff regulations, and develops an agenda for the Council of Ministers depending on their analyses of the organizations activities. One senior official from each member state serves on the Executive Bureau.
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OAPEC consists of the Council of Ministers that holds the supreme authority over the Executive Bureau, the General Secretariat, and the Judicial Tribunal. The Council of Ministers is formed by each member state's minister of petroleum and they work together to construct general policy and ensure the
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The General Secretariat is led by the Secretary General, who is currently Jamal Essa Al Loughani, and includes four departments: Finance and Administrative Affairs; Information and Library; Economics; and Technical Affairs. The Economics Department and the Technical Affairs Department jointly form
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The Judicial Tribunal mitigates disputes between member states; interpretations of the OAPEC Agreement; disputes with a petroleum company operating in its member states' territory, and anything else that falls into OAPEC's jurisdiction or that the Council of Ministers submits to the tribunal. The
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as well as maintaining strong relations among themselves; to provide legitimate means to preserve the members' individual and collective efforts within the industry; unite on-going efforts for the procurement of oil; provide access to consumer markets on fair and reasonable terms; and provide
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Judicial Tribunal must unevenly consist of at least seven and no more than eleven judges from Arab countries. The tribunal's judgments are final and binding, and will be enforceable within the territories of residing members.
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OAPEC was originally intended to be a conservative Arab political organization which, by restricting membership to countries whose main export was oil, would exclude governments seen as radical – such as those of
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was a turning point for the organization. In October of that year, the forces of Egypt and Syria attempted to overwhelm the state of Israel in an offensive later known as the
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focusing on organizing cooperation in oil development, collective projects, and regional integration.
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conditions, adequate capital, and experience of investors in the oil industry.
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As of December 2020, OAPEC has 11 members countries, 6 of which are also
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On 9 January 1968, three of the then–most conservative Arab oil states –
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Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump? The (Re)Making of a Petro-State
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Regional Surveys of the World: The Middle East and North Africa
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the Arab Center for Energy Studies, established in 1983.
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In 1979, Egypt was expelled from OAPEC for signing the
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which coordinates energy policies among oil-producing
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Kuwait-based energy policy coordinating organization
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Index

OAPEC
OPEC
Map of OAPEC Members and their status
Kuwait
Official language
Arabic
Algeria
Bahrain
Egypt
Iraq
Kuwait
Libya
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
United Arab Emirates
Tunisia
https://www.oapecorg.org/Home
Arabic
Kuwait
Arab states
oil industry
Kuwait
Libya
Saudi Arabia
Beirut
1967 oil embargo
Six-Day War
Khartoum Conference
Egypt

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