Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
Volume 40 Issue 5
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OAPEC Activities
Official delegations participated in the
meeting headed by Their Excellencies Energy and
Petroleum Ministers in the IEF member countries.
The ministerial meeting was held under the title
“The New Geography of Energy and the Future of
Global Energy Security”.
The meeting included 4 public sessions that
tackled the following topics:
• New energy geography: maintaining the
status quo or stepping into a new era of
energy demand and supply?
• Oil and gas production fromunconventional
resources: future outlook, risks, and
potentials
• Transforming into low-carbon economy:
reality or science fiction?
• Global energy and good governance: IEF
role
A special session was held to launch the new
Joint Organisations Data Initiative gas market
database (JODI-Gas).
During the meeting, the first session of its kind
since the establishment of the IEF, between IEF
Ministers and CEOs was held. On the sidelines of
the forum, various bilateral meetings took place
among exporting and importing countries and oil
companies’ CEOs to discuss relations and joint
ventures.
14
th
IEF Ministerial Meeting
The New Geography of Energy and the
Future of Global Energy Security
OAPEC Secretary General HEAbbas Ali Al Naqi took part in the 14
th
IEF
Ministerial Meeting held inMoscow, Russia, on 15 and 16May 2014 upon
an invitation by the Russian Energy Minister HEMrAlexander Novak and
International Energy Forum Secretary General HE Aldo Flores-Quiroga.
