Since the 1990s, the role of OPEC has expanded to focus not only on the interest…
The establishment of the IEA in 1974, to which a majority of the EEC Member States…
“a) to maintain and improve the systems for coping within oil supply disruptions; b) to promote rational energy policies in a global context through co-operative relations with non-member countries, industry, and international organisations; c) to operate a permanent information system in the international oil market; d) to improve the world’s energy supply and demand structure by developing alternative energy sources and increasing the efficiency of energy use; e) to promote international collaboration on energy technology, and f) to assist in the integration of environmental and energy policies.”(180)…
Therefore, the IEA was originally established as an oil-consumer countries’ institution…
OPEC and the IEA had no direct communication until the middle of the 1990s. Nevertheless,…
Germany and Spain, the major supporters of IRENA, are also members of the IEA. Given…
