OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo has died, in early August the 63-year-old should have handed over his office to Kuwaiti successor Haitham Al-Ghais. The Nigerian is reportedly already preparing for life after OPEC.
Mele Kyari, head of Nigeria’s state oil company NNPC, announced the death of OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo via Twitter on Wednesday. Another OPEC spokesperson in Vienna confirmed this. Barkindo headed the NNPC from 2009 to 2010 and has been Secretary General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) since 2016.
Received the same day by the president
According to Kyaris, Barkindo passed away late Tuesday night. On the same day, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari received the OPEC chief in the country’s capital, Abuja. During the said meeting, President Barkindo praised, among other things, the establishment of the alliance between OPEC and other cooperation partners led by Russia. The group known as OPEC+ has been influencing supply and prices in the global oil market for several years through production agreements.
Source: Krone
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