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The purpose of OPEC for members is to "coordinate and unify the petroleum policies of its Member Countries and ensure the stabilization of oil markets in order to secure an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consumers, a steady income to producers and a fair return on capital for those investing in the petroleum industry." OPEC members collectively supply about 43.5% of the world's crude oil production. Together, OPEC members control about 81.9% of the world's total proven crude reserves.
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The organization that is known as OPEC is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. This organization has a goal of producing steady income for countries that are members of OPEC.
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To control the production of oil— Apex :)
what has OPEC done to limit the effect of non member production on its pricing decisions?
It increased.
Price goes up.
OPEC is the organization that controls the world's production and price of oil. The members of OPEC come from twelve oil producing states.
opecs problems; the increase in the production of Non-Opec members , the Drive for energy conservation. it is obvious that if the drive for energy conservation strengthens, opec members will start to loose money, their cartel will be of no use anymore since people will start to buy alternative energy sources that are cheaper and environmental friendly.
Filling up your Hummers and Pickups becomes a hell of a lot more expensive!
Venezuela and Ecuador are the only OPEC members in Latin America.
It doesn't matter, because the C stands for "countries". Each of the members of OPEC is a sovereign state and therefore enjoys sovereign immunity. If the rest of the world got ticked off enough about it there could be trade sanctions or even war against the members of OPEC, but short of that there's not much that could be done regarding enforcement. Also, the members of OPEC don't like each other that well and have a long history of not cooperating with production quotas, and even if they did OPEC accounts for less than half of world oil production so while they definitely have influence over the market they certainly don't control it.
The purpose of OPEC for members is to "coordinate and unify the petroleum policies of its Member Countries and ensure the stabilization of oil markets in order to secure an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consumers, a steady income to producers and a fair return on capital for those investing in the petroleum industry." OPEC members collectively supply about 43.5% of the world's crude oil production. Together, OPEC members control about 81.9% of the world's total proven crude reserves.
There are twelve members in OPEC: Algeria Angola Ecuador Iran Iraq Kuwait Libya Nigeria Qatar Saudi Arabia UAE Venezuela Gabon and Indonesia used to be members of OPEC but left in 1994 and 2009.
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No. Yemen is not a member due to its low oil production and proven reserves.