| As an oil cartel, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is a fixture of the world’s energy system – not particularly liked, but begrudgingly accepted. The national oil companies within the sphere of OPEC, with their opaque accounting practices and byzantine corporate structures, monopolize vast reserves of easy oil and repatriate to their home treasuries gargantuan stores of western currency.
In an increasingly global, transparent and unconventional energy age, OPEC goes against the grain. The untold mineral riches of its member nations, most of which are Middle Eastern, has given them a sense of confidence – some might say arrogance – that lets them, by and large, ignore energy developments elsewhere in the world and continue on with business as usual...............................................Full Article: Source
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