16 December 2014 - 10:52
  • News ID: 231043
Iran’s Zangeneh Attends GECF Meeting

TEHRAN Dec 16 (Shana)--Iran’s Petroleum Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh has travelled to Doha, Qatar, to attend the ministerial meeting of Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF).

GECF member states are gathering to review the latest developments in the gas market.

The forum’s secretary-general is Mohammad-Hossein Adeli of Iran.

The GECF is an intergovernmental organization that brings together the world's major natural gas producers, namely Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Venezuela.

Kazakhstan, Iraq, the Netherlands and Norway have the observer status.

The GECF was founded in Tehran in 2001 and its member states control over 70 percent of the world's natural gas reserves as well as more than 80 percent of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) production. 
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