TEHRAN (FNA)- Energy ministers of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) member states in a meeting in Tehran elected Iran's nominee Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli as the next secretary-general of the gas cartel.


Adeli managed to win over his two rivals from Libya and Russia to take the secretary-general post of the GECF.

Based on the estimates of big European oil companies like the BP, Iran at present enjoys the biggest conventional gas resources in the world.

The ministerial meeting of the GECF started in Tehran earlier today and will end tomorrow.

Elaborating on the meeting, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Thursday that the gathering is regularly held in the member countries annually and that it aims to name the secretary-general for the gas exporting countries.

Also, the GECF member states in their 14th ministerial meeting in Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea, last November named the Iranian oil minister as the chairman of the current GECF ministerial meeting in Tehran.

During the ministerial meeting in Malabo, delegates from the 12 member states as well as Holland, as an observer, also discussed ways of expanding activities in the global gas market.

Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela are the eleven members of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum.

The gas cartel is still officially known as the Gas Forum, but major exporters Iran and Russia last year started a move to change the body into an OPEC-like organization called the OGEC.

Iran, Russia, Qatar, Venezuela and Algeria are among the GECF's member states which possess 42% of the world's gas reserves.

By Fars News Agency

 

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