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OPEC optimistic on demand, calls for more oil and gas investment

OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al-Ghais said on Monday stressed the importance of continued investment in the oil and gas industry and said he sees calls to stop investing in oil as counterproductive. Reuters
OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al-Ghais said on Monday stressed the importance of continued investment in the oil and gas industry and said he sees calls to stop investing in oil as counterproductive. Reuters
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03 Oct 2023 01:10:22 GMT9
03 Oct 2023 01:10:22 GMT9

ABU DHABI: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is optimistic on demand and sees under-investment as a risk to energy security, Secretary-General Haitham Al-Ghais said on Monday at an energy industry event in Abu Dhabi.

He stressed the importance of continued investment in the oil and gas industry and said he sees calls to stop investing in oil as counterproductive.

“We still see oil demand as quite resilient this year, as it was last year,” Al-Ghais said, noting the group’s forecast was for year-on-year demand growth of more than 2.3 million barrels per day (bpd).

He added that investment in the oil and gas sector was important for energy security.

“We are…running quite low on spare capacity; we have said this repeatedly and this requires a concerted effort by all of the stakeholders to see the importance of investing in this industry,” he said.

The UAE’s Energy Minister Suhail Al-Mazrouei echoed the call and said investment by both international and national oil companies was needed.

“And these investments need the financial world to be willing to finance oil and gas,” Al-Mazrouei said.

He later told reporters that his country is on track to expand its oil production capacity to 5 million bpd by 2027 from 4.2 million bpd currently.

Reuters

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