Press Room

OPEC daily basket price stood at $110.82 a barrel Thursday, 2 February 2012

5th OPEC International Seminar to be held in Vienna on 13-14 June 2012

OPEC 160th Meeting concludes

The 160th Meeting of the Conference of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) convened in Vienna, Austria, on 14 December 2011.

Opening address to the 160th Meeting of the OPEC Conference

by HE Eng. Rostam Ghasemi, Minister of Petroleum of the Islamic Republic of Iran and President of the Conference

Joint Statement: OPEC Secretary General receives South African Government’s Special Envoy for COP-17

OPEC Secretary General HE Abdalla Salem El-Badri has received a delegation from South Africa headed by Her Excellency Ms. Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko, South African Government’s Ambassador at Large and Special Envoy for the UNFCCC COP17/CMP7.

OPEC's World Oil Outlook & Annual Statistical Bulletin to be launched 8 November 2011

The 2011 edition of OPEC's World Oil Outlook (WOO) and the 2010/2011 Annual Statistical Bulletin (ASB) will be officially presented at a Press Conference to be held at the OPEC Secretariat on Tuesday, 8 November, at 14:30 hours CET.

"The MENA Region in the International Arena"

Keynote address by HE Abdalla S. El-Badri, OPEC Secretary General, to the Middle East & North Africa Energy 2012, Investing for the Future in Turbulent Times, Chatham House, London, U.K, 30-31 January 2012.

Speech to the 20th World Petroleum Congress

Speech by OPEC Secretary General, HE Abdalla S. El-Badri, to the 20th World Petroleum Congress, Plenary 6: Producer-Consumer Dialogue: Expectations and Deliverables, Doha, Qatar, 7 December 2011.

“New Frontiers in the Oil & Gas Industries: The Technological Difference”

Speech delivered by HE Abdalla Salem El-Badri, OPEC Secretary General, to the 15th IIES Conference & Exhibition, Theme: "Technology and Innovation in the Oil and Gas Industry", Tehran, Iran, 1-2 November 2011.

Address by the Secretary General to the OPEC 50th Anniversary Ceremony

Delivered by HE Abdalla S. El-Badri, OPEC Secretary General, at the Ceremony organised by the Islamic Republic of Iran's Ministry of Petroleum, Tehran, Iran, 19 April 2011