دور ليبيا في منظمة الدول المصدره للنفط-أوبيك 1960-1969

Abstract EN

A conference of oil producing countries was held in Baghdad in September 1960 to discuss the policy of reducing the prices adopted by the oil companies and harming the revenues of the oil producing countries, which resulted in the establishment of the Organization of Petroleum Producing Countries (OPEC), and Libya was not invited to participate in the conference because it was not an oil producing country at that time Libya entered the stage of commercial oil production in 1961, and did not intend to join the organization to oppose its policy with Libya's oil interests.

OPEC was seeking to reduce oil production in order to improve prices in the market at a time when Libya was seeking to increase oil production To improve its national income, especially in the early years of production, and in 1962, Libya joined OPEC and benefited from its accession to the Organization to develop its expertise in the field of oil management and obtained strong support to the Organization in its dispute with oil companies over prices, but in the period 1965-1967 Libya's activity in OPEC increased significantly, and in 1968 and 1969 its interest and activity in the organization began to diminish, due to its tendency to establish the Arab Organization of OPEC, which was founded in 1968.

On 1 September 1969, the monarchy fell and a new phase of relations with OPEC began