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OPEC
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opec
English
Pronunciation
en /ˈəʊpɛk/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-OPEC.wav Southern England
en /ˈoʊpɛk/ GA
Proper noun
en w:Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
en 1980 July w:Frank Herbert Dune Genesis Omni (magazine) Omni https://archive.org/details/sim_omni_1980-07_2_10/ 2 10 0149-8711 440821199 74 https://archive.org/details/sim_omni_1980-07_2_10/page/74/ 1 Yes there are analogs in Dune of today’s events—corruption and bribery in the highest places, whole police forces lost to organized crime, regulatory agencies taken over by the people they are supposed to regulate. The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.
en 1988 Jeffrey Robinson Jeffrey Robinson The Birth of Opec and the Rise of Yamani Ahmed Zaki Yamani Yamani: The Inside Story https://archive.org/details/yamaniinsidestor00robi_0/ Biography/History New York w:Atlantic Monthly Press 1989 0-87113-323-7 89-109 19222503 54 https://archive.org/details/yamaniinsidestor00robi_0/page/54/ It was obvious that, if Opec was going to survive much longer, it had to be taken seriously by the world’s major oil companies. So Yamani decided, if the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, Opec had somehow to impose its presence on the oil companies.
en Jon Gambrell United Arab Emirates will leave OPEC in a blow to the oil cartel w:AP News https://apnews.com/article/opec-united-arab-emirates-leaving-cartel-4966108c3fafacb67181152216deda14 2026-04-28 The UAE’s decision had been rumored as a possibility for some time, as it pushed back in recent years against OPEC production quotas it felt had been too low — meaning it wasn’t able to sell as much oil to the world as it had wanted. https://web.archive.org/web/20260429193339/https://apnews.com/article/opec-united-arab-emirates-leaving-cartel-4966108c3fafacb67181152216deda14
Translations
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Arabic: ar اُوبِك ōbek, ar اُوبِيك ōbēk
Armenian: hy
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 歐佩克 Ōupèikè
French: fr OPEP f
Georgian: ka
Greek: el ΟΠΕΚ m
Japanese: ja
Kazakh: kk МЭЕҰ, kk Мұнай экспорттаушы елдер ұйымы
Korean: ko
Marathi: mr ओपेक
Persian: fa اوپک opek
Portuguese: pt OPEP f
Russian: ru ОПЕ́К f
Spanish: es OPEP f
Swedish: sv OPEC
Thai: th
Turkish: tr
Ukrainian: uk ОПЕ́К m, uk Організація країн-експортерів нафти
Anagrams
en ceop Cope cope CEOP COEP
en Organizations Petroleum