OPEC has, for years, insisted that it is an economic organization and not a political one. But few observers would disagree with the suggestion that pretty much everything in OPEC is political. We have seen how politics has complicated the appointments of secretaries general, most recently in the case of Abdalla el-Badri who, despite having […]

via The Barrel Blog http://blogs.platts.com/2013/07/11/opec-number-story/