چكيده لاتين :
A close look at the OPECיs performance over the past 35 years, maintained by some economic trends from 1970 to 2005, such as fluctuations in the oil prices, energy efficiency and energy consumption within both developing and developed countries, suggests that, apart from the very recent upswings, oil prices were anything other than satisfactory in real terms. Furthermore, oil revenues were not able to bring about any significant economic growth in the oil-rich countries, let alone economic development and prosperity. Despite this, some oil and gas producer states are now contemplating another merger in the field, calling for the formation of a "gas carter on the same fashion and assumptions that OPEC popped up out of them.
Having recognized an urgent need for coordination of oil and gas policies among various players in the world market to address economic development requirements of the oil and gas producer states, at the same time a secured supply and delivery of energy to the consumer states, and more importantly, fulfill the climate security requirements of both consumers and producers in the near future, this paper suggests the formation of an oil and gas community to encompass all these issues in one place. This means that world major oil and gas consumers and producers should sit together, try to coordinate their demand and supply policies on a win-win basis. The outcome of such dialogues and negotiations could be different -based on their built up social capital- ranging from formation of a full-fledged oil and gas community to just some trade-off mechanism between "oil and gas production" and "economic developmentיי. This way, they can boost cooperation in other fields and prevent various conflicts and even confrontations in future.
