OPEC Secretary-General, Mohammed Barkindo Is Dead

OPEC Secretary-General, Mohammed Barkindo Is Dead

by Joseph Anthony
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FILE: OPEC General Secretary Mohammed Barkindo (C) attends the third Kuwaiti Oil & Gas Conference in Kuwait City on October 15, 2017. Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP

The Secretary-General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, has died.

Barkindo died on Tuesday evening, according to the Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari.
โ€œWe lost our esteemed Dr Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo,โ€ Kyari said in a tweet.
โ€œHe died at about 11pm yesterday 5th July 2022. Certainly a great loss to his immediate family, the NNPC, our country Nigeria, the OPEC, and the global energy community.
โ€œBurial arrangements will be announced shortly.โ€
Barkindo earlier on Tuesday had been honoured by President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House in Abuja for his work at OPEC.
His tenure as OPEC Secretary-General was scheduled to expire this July.
The President described him as a worthy ambassador of the country.
โ€œYou have indeed been a worthy ambassador of our country,โ€ President Buhari was quoted as saying in a statement by his media adviser, Femi Adesina.
โ€œWe are proud of your achievements before and during your appointment at OPEC and the proud legacies you will leave behind.
โ€œYour time in charge of the affairs of OPEC has been a very challenging one for the global oil industry. Oil producers were finding it difficult to come together to address challenges that were crippling the oil market.โ€
He added, โ€œNot long after, the world was faced with the COVID-19 pandemic that sent crude prices spiralling down at an alarming rate. You showed incredible leadership to rally industry players and pushed through the turbulent times.
โ€œThere is no doubt about your efforts in putting together the Declaration of Cooperation which is the largest in the history of OPEC and the global oil industry and also the longest in duration in the history of the organization. This was a herculean task.โ€

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