{"id":24179,"date":"2018-12-03T19:22:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24179"},"modified":"2018-12-03T19:22:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:22:39","slug":"why-is-qatar-leaving-opec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24179","title":{"rendered":"Why is Qatar leaving OPEC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"77.5129411765\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/12\/qatar-withdraw-opec-january-2019-181203061900372.html\">Qatar is leaving<\/a> the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, the first Gulf country to pull out since joining more than half a century ago.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar plans to expand its role as the world&#8217;s number one exporter of liquefied natural gas and boost production by more than 50 percent to 110 million tonnes a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decision to quit OPEC comes just days before a crucial meeting of members in Vienna to discuss cutting supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices reached a four-year high of more than $80 a barrel a couple of months ago but have now dropped to about $60.<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean for the global energy market?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Richelle Carey<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abdullah Baabood &#8211; academic and researcher focusing on the Gulf region and the Middle East<\/p>\n<p>Cornelia Meyer &#8211; economist and energy expert<\/p>\n<p>Manouchehr Takin &#8211; former OPEC official<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar is leaving the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, the first Gulf country to pull out since joining more than half a century ago. Qatar plans to expand its role as the world&#8217;s number one exporter of liquefied natural gas and boost production by more than 50 percent to 110 million tonnes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}