Gas Exporting Countries Forum

Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF)
Logo of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum
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Members (blue) and observers (orange) of the Gas-Exporting Countries Forum.
Members (blue) and observers (orange) of the Gas-Exporting Countries Forum.
HeadquartersDoha, Qatar
Official languageEnglish
TypeTrade forum
Members[1]
11 states
8 observers
Leaders
• Secretary General
Mohammad Hamel
EstablishmentTehran, Iran
• Forum
May 20, 2001
• Statute
December 23, 2008
Area
• Total
26,965,287.87 km2 (10,411,355.85 sq mi)
Population
• Estimate
599,861,442
• Density
22.2/km2 (57.5/sq mi)
Website
www.gecf.org
Dmitry Medvedev and the participants in the seventh ministerial meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries' Forum (GECF), Moscow Kremlin, 2008.
Vladimir Putin and the participants in the meeting of the heads of state and government of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), Moscow Kremlin, 2013.
Hassan Rouhani chairs the Third GECF summit, 22 May 2015

The Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) is an intergovernmental organization currently comprising 19 Member Countries of the world's leading natural gas producers: Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela are members and Angola, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Mozambique, Malaysia, Norway, Peru and the United Arab Emirates are observers. GECF members together control over 71% of the world's natural proven gas reserves, 44% of its marketed production, 53% of the pipeline, and 57% of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports across the globe.[2] It is headquartered in Doha, Qatar.

  1. ^ GECF Members & Observers Archived 2015-11-08 at the Wayback Machine GECF
  2. ^ "Restored GCC unity to bring stability to energy markets: GECF". Gulf-Times (in Arabic). 2021-01-13. Retrieved 2021-03-04.