عضويت ايران در اوپك : بودن يا نبودن

With the propasal of venezuela, the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries (OPEC) established in 1960. The members of OPEC at the initial stage of establishment were: Iran, Suadi Arabia, Venezuela, Kuwait and Iraq. When OPEC was stablished, 67% of the worldʹs oil reserves, 38% of the worldʹs oil market and 90% of the worldʹs oil market was at its disposal. In order to keep the oil market stable, from the early 1980ʹs, OPEC has developed two strategies in the form of: 1. Protection of price 2. Protection of Market. Price protection strategy means a kind of control in production management. Making this strategical decision caused a loss of these countriesʹ share in the worldʹs oil market. Market protection strategy resulted in a considerable decrease in oil revenue (decrease in price) of producing countries, but finally, achieving a greater share of market. In the last 20 years, OPEC has been following a moderate strategy. Implementing this strategy providing a relative stability in the revenue of oil producing countries of OPEC members, but on the other hand has intensified instability in the world market. In this paper, we try to consider the short and mid-term prespective of the OPEC and the challenges it is now facing, and then the status of OPEC in the world market and the role of it in supply security will be studies finally, the Iranʹs long-term guidlines and the OPEC general secretarietship will be discussed.