Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 2

10-January-2005

OPEC News Agency Closes As Part Of Press/Information Department Reorganization

The OPEC News Agency (OPECNA) closed down on 31 December 2004 as part of a major overhaul in the structure of OPECs press and information department. The decision to close OPECNA after 24 years was taken by the Secretariat after a review of the service found that most of the stories published by the agency were third-party in origin, available in an electronic...