Forum for Gas Exporting Countries
The Gas Exporting Countries Forum ( English : Gas Exporting Countries Forum in short, GECF ) is in December 23, 2008 Moscow closed alliance of the world's leading producers of natural gas , which previously since 2001 without using the same name as a loose formation without statutes and fixed membership structure.
history
The establishment of the Forum for Gas Exporting Countries was first discussed at a meeting in Tehran in 2001, following a proposal from Iran . Since then, a ministerial meeting of gas-exporting countries has taken place annually.
As a result, there was speculation as to whether the world's largest natural gas producers (including Russia and Iran in particular ) intend to set up a gas cartel that would represent an equivalent to OPEC in the field of natural gas. The idea of OPEC in the natural gas sector was first voiced by Russian President Vladimir Putin . An expert meeting was held in Moscow in June 2008 to prepare an official charter, and in October Iran's Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nosari, after meeting with representatives from Russia and Qatar, said: “There is a need for a gas OPEC and we are agree that we will found a gas OPEC. "
On December 23, 2008, representatives of the GECF member countries met in Moscow for their seventh ministerial meeting, where they agreed on a common statute and the Qatari capital Doha as the seat of the organization.
aims
The forum wants to bundle the interests of the member countries in the gas markets and the member countries want to support each other in promoting.
In the context of the forum there should be no price fixing or other anti-trust measures. There are also no delivery quantities to be agreed.
structure
The forum is based in Doha (Qatar).
Members
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Conferences
Since the founding year, there have been annual conferences of the member countries:
- 2001: Tehran , Iran
- 2002: Algiers , Algeria
- 2003: Doha , Qatar
- 2004: Cairo , Egypt
- 2005: Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago
- 2007: Doha, Qatar
- 2008: Moscow , Russia
- 2009: Doha, Qatar
- 2010: Oran , Algeria and Doha, Qatar
- 2011: Cairo, Egypt and Doha, Qatar
- There was no meeting in 2012
- 2013: Tehran, Iran
- 2014: Doha, Qatar
- 2015: Tehran, Iran
- 2016: Doha, Qatar
- 2017: Moscow, Russia
- 2018: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
- 2019: Moscow, Russia
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Gas Exporting Countries Forum: Is it really a Gas OPEC in the Making? ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( PDF ).
- ↑ 'OPEC gas' still under review .
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Russia, Iran and Qatar plan cartel: "We will found a gas OPEC" ( memento of October 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) of October 21, 2008.
- ↑ a b Gas exporting countries set up an alliance based in Doha - no gas cartel. RIA Novosti, December 23, 2008, accessed December 27, 2008 .
- ↑ See gas export countries establish new alliance ( memento of the original from January 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at welt.de, December 23, 2008
- ↑ See article Gasforum in the tagesschau, December 23, 2008 .
literature
- Hadi Hallouche: The Gas Exporting Countries Forum: Is it really a Gas OPEC in the Making? Ed .: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. 2006, ISBN 1-901795-50-0 ( online [PDF]).
- Vladimir Socor: A Russian-led "OPEC for Gas"? Design, implications, countermeasures . In: Foreign Policy Research Center (Ed.): Lithuanian Foreign Policy Review . 2008, ISSN 1392-5504 ( Online [PDF; 75 kB ]).
- Chris Flynn, Erin Dyer: The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Gas Regulation 2008 . Ed .: Global Legal Group. 2008, The Creation of a Gas Cartel v The Commoditization of Gas, p. 1–3 ( online [PDF]).