High Level Ad Hoc Group for the 2nd Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), chaired by the Russian Federation, held its second meeting in Moscow on April 11, according to Russian Ministry of Energy press service.
The 2nd GECF Gas Summit will take place in Moscow, Russia in summer of 2013.
The meeting was attended by representatives from 10 Member Countries, namely Algeria, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Oman, Russia, Qatar, UAE, Venezuela and GECF Secretary General HE Leonid Bokhanovskiy.
Gas Exporting Countries Forum is an association of world’s leading natural gas export countries. The primary objective of interaction between the GECF members is to ensure the reliability and security of energy supply and demand.
Forum’s Member Countries are Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Oman, Nigeria, Russia, Qatar, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela. Iraq, Kazakhstan, Netherlands and Norway are observer countries. First GECF Gas Summit was held in Doha, Qatar in November, 2011.
[mappress] LNG World News Staff, April 16, 2013