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OPEC Secretary General to Visit Angola

08-27-2007

Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Lybian Abdalla Salem El-Badri pays a work visit to Angola.

At the invitation of Angolan Oil Minister Desiderio Costa, Abdalla Salem El-Badri, who arrived in the Angolan capital Luanda on Saturday, leads a team of OPEC technicians to discuss with Angola's oil industrial authorities issues like the OPEC's Reference Package Price including the Angolan crude oil.

Other issues to be discussed include the production monitoring report, requirements for the monthly production report, questionnaire and annual statistical bulletin for 2006 and plans relating to OPEC's production capacity, medium-term perspectives, among others.

During his four-day visit to Angola, the OPEC official also visits the research and production head-office of the Angola National Oil Company (Sonangol), the office of Sonils, a firm that supports oil activities in the country, and the Kwanza River mouth where more than 60 percent of Angola's oil output are produced.

Angola joined the OPEC at an OPEC extraordinary meeting held in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, in December 2006.