OAPEC: New leader for Arab oil organisation


Issue 1095 - 09 Jan 2020 | 1 minute read

Members of the Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) appointed Kuwaiti candidate Ali Bin Sabt as secretary-general at the organisation’s 103rd meeting, held in Kuwait on 22 December. Bin Sabt worked for many years as an assistant undersecretary for technical affairs in the Kuwaiti Ministry of Oil; he takes over from the UAE’s Abbas Al-Naqi. The organisation’s next meeting will also be held in Kuwait, in December 2020.

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