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OAPEC Activities
Volume 41 Issue 1012
unstable petroleum prices. It will also weaken
the ability of some oil exporting countries to
fund their petroleum projects.
Petroleum Media
Mr Abdul Karim Ayyed,
Director of the Media
and Library Department/
Acting Administrative
Affairs Director, OAPEC,
presented a paper on the
petroleum media. In his
paper, Mr Ayyed pointed out to
the fact that the global media industry is going
through a rapid technological development,
which has a significant impact on various media
sectors around the world, especially electronic
and social media. The coming stage requires
planning to make use of these technologies
that help reaching out to a large number of
audience with the lowest cost and effort. This
is not to forget the traditional media in order
to strike a balance between the traditional and
new media.
The lecturer also spoke about the
professional development of the petroleum
media, underscoring that it is important to
introduce oil as a strategic good for both
consumers and producers while raising
collective awareness on oil’s importance and its
role in the development process. He explained
that among the priorities of petroleum media
bodies in the petroleum producing and
exporting countries is highlighting the role of
oil producing countries in keeping the prices
stable while securing supplies, bringing
stability back to energy markets, highlighting
the importance of oil as a main source of
energy in the coming decades, highlighting
the role of producing countries in maintain
the safety of the environment through using
environment friendly technology, stressing the
role of oil producing countries in sustainable
development- an efficient way to use oil
revenues, and the role of sovereign funds of the
producing countries in supporting development
projects in the developing countries.
The lecturer introduced a variety of topics
that enjoy special interest from the part of the
petroleum media including the stereotyping
of Arab petroleum industry in the Western
media, oil prices, and climate change- which is
gatheringmomentumwith the advent of COP21
in Paris, France, in December 2015. Moreover,
he tackled energy security, while stressing that
petroleum media bodies in OAPEC Secretariat
General and its member countries were keen on
tackling these sensitive issues in a professional
and objective way to clarify the stances of Arab
countries on these issues.
The lecturer concluded by stressing that
OAPEC Secretariat General welcomes all
sorts of cooperation in the field of petroleum
media with its member countries and Arab