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Issue
1
OAPEC Activities
• Al Bassam & Partners were reappointed as
OAPEC (Secretariat General and Judicial
Tribunal) Auditors for 2018.
• The Council was informed about the contents
of OAPEC Report on the World’s Petroleum
Conditions.
Reviewing the Secretariat General’s report
on the preparations for the 11the Arab
Energy Conference to be held in Marrakesh,
Morocco, from 1 to 4 October 2018.
Reviewing the Secretariat General’s report on
OAPEC activities on:
- Following up environment and climate change
issues, most importantly the outcome of the
COP-23 held in Bonn, Germany, from 6 to 17
November 2017.
- Finalized studies prepared by the Secretariat
General during the second half of 2017 (4
technical and economic studies on oil and
energy)
- Databank progress and activity development
- All activities which the Secretariat General
organized or took part in during 2017 (6
events)
- The Council reviewed OAPEC Joint Ventures
Activity Report in 2016 and the first half
of 2017, and took note of the outcome
of the 46th Coordinating Meeting of the
Joint Ventures Officials held in Cairo on
12/10/2017, which encouraged continued
coordination and cooperation among these
joint ventures.
- The Council resolved to extend the period
where the Republic of Iraq is assigned to
supervise the Arab Oil Training Institute,
for one year, with effect from 1 January
2018. The Council assigned the Institute, in
coordination with the Secretariat General, to
prepare a study on methods to develop and
restructure the Institute.
- The chairmanship of the next round of the
Ministerial Council will be assigned to the
UAE as of January 2018.
- The Ministerial Council’s Chairman sent a
cable of thanks and gratitude on behalf
of the Council to the Emir of Kuwait HH
Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah,
expressing thanks and appreciation for
Kuwait’s hospitality and warm welcome
while hosting the meeting.
- It was agreed to hold the next Ministerial
Meeting in Kuwait on 23 December 2018.