OPEC

IEA Director Calls for Direct Producer-Consumer Contacts With

OPEC producers moving downstream and Middle Eastern oil remaining the mainstay of Europe's energy supplies, the interests of members of OPEC and of the International Energy Agency (IEA) are becoming increasingly "blurred," indicating that the time has come for direct contacts between the two groups, according to the Executive Director of the IEA, Mrs. Helga Steeg.

In an article in the German magazine ...