{"id":63062,"date":"2018-12-11T13:56:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=63062"},"modified":"2018-12-11T13:57:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T13:57:04","slug":"qatar-to-withdraw-from-opec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/qatar-to-withdraw-from-opec\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar to withdraw from OPEC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which of the following country recently announced its withdrawal from the membership from OPEC?<\/strong><br>(a) Kuwait<br>(b) Gabon<br>(c) Qatar <br>(d) Iran <br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Qatar will quit the bloc of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC as per the announcement of its Energy Minister Mr. Saad Sherida (Saad al-Kaabi); this will come into effect from January 2019. Qatar was its member since 1961.<\/li><li>Qatar notified that it would leave OPEC to focus on gas production, in a swipe at Saudi Arabia, the de facto leader of the group, which is trying to show unity in tackling an oil price slide.<\/li><li>Qatar holds only around 2% of global oil reserves.  Qatar is one of the world\u2019s biggest Liquefied Natural Gas (LPG) exporters. It plans to boost its gas production from 77 million tonnes a year to 110 million tonnes per year by 2024.<\/li><li>Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a Permanent Intergovernmental Organization of 15 oil-exporting countries created at Baghdad Conference in 1961.It is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.<\/li><li>Five countries namely Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela are founder members of the Organization.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opec.org\/opec_web\/en\/about_us\/23.htm\">https:\/\/www.opec.org\/opec_web\/en\/about_us\/23.htm<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/qatar-to-quit-opec-in-2019-says-energy-minister\/article25652868.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/qatar-to-quit-opec-in-2019-says-energy-minister\/article25652868.ece<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/us-energy-secretary-perry-to-visit-saudi-arabia-qatar\/4686838.html\">https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/us-energy-secretary-perry-to-visit-saudi-arabia-qatar\/4686838.html<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/australia-qatar-lng\/australia-grabs-worlds-biggest-lng-exporter-crown-from-qatar-in-nov-idINKBN1O908E\">https:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/australia-qatar-lng\/australia-grabs-worlds-biggest-lng-exporter-crown-from-qatar-in-nov-idINKBN1O908E<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following country recently announced its withdrawal from the membership from OPEC?(a) Kuwait(b) Gabon(c) Qatar (d) Iran Answer: (c)Related facts: Qatar will quit the bloc of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC as per the announcement of its Energy Minister Mr. Saad Sherida (Saad al-Kaabi); this will come into effect from January 2019. Qatar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":63064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}