OPEC Secretary-General Muhammad Barkindo has died at the age of 63
Barkindo served as acting OPEC secretary general in 2006 before returning to office a decade later and leading the organization during a turbulent period in the oil market, including greater collaboration with non-OPEC oil producers
Reuters
06/07/2022
Wednesday, 06 July 2022, 10:26 Updated: 10:53
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The secretary general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, Muhammad Barkindo, has died at the age of 63, the CEO of the Nigerian oil company NNPC announced today (Wednesday)
. Our esteemed Dr. Muhammad Barkindo, ”Mela Chiari tweeted, adding that Berkindo died last night.
The death "is a great loss to his immediate family, the NNCP, to our country Nigeria, to the OPEC and to the global energy community," he added
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Was due to retire at the end of the month.
Muhammad Barkindo (Photo: Reuters)
Barkindo said the gas and oil industry is "under siege" due to years of insufficient investment and that trade in oil from Iran and Venezuela could help the current market situation of supply that does not meet demand.
Berkindo's career in the oil industry began in the 1980s.
He has held several positions at NNPC and represented Nigeria on the Board of Directors of the OPEC Economic Commission. Non-OPEC oil producers.
Barkindo plans to join the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center at the U.S. Research Institute after his retirement, the council recently announced.
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