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OPEC

international organization of petroleum-exporting countries

7 dated entries naming OPEC, drawn from 7 separate years between 1971 CE and 2022 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1971January 19 – Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC in Tehran to stabilize oil prices; February 14 they sign a treaty with 6 Arab states of the Persian Gulf.source
  • 1973October 17 – An OPEC oil embargo against several countries supporting Israel triggers the 1973 energy crisis.source
  • 1974March 18 – End of five-month oil embargo by most OPEC nations against the United States, Europe, and Japan which had caused the 1973 oil crisis.source
  • 1975December 21 – Six people, including Carlos the Jackal, kidnap delegates of an OPEC conference in Vienna.source

21st century

  • 2019January 1 – Qatar withdraws from OPEC.source
  • 2020April 12 – OPEC and allies strike a deal to cut oil production by 9.7 million barrels per day, the largest such cut agreed upon, starting May 1.source
  • 2022October 5 – OPEC+ imposes a production cut of up to 2 million barrels per day.source

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