VOL. XLIV

No 38

17-September-2001

OPEC

Ait-Laoussine On OPECs Old AndNew Challenges

OPEC faces old and new challengesfollowing the fundamental change in its attitude towards dealing with themarkets since March 1999 and the current slowdown in the world economy,according to Nordine Ait-Laoussine, former Algerian Energy Minister andpresident of Geneva-based consulting firm Nalcosa, in a speech at the 23rdOxford Energy Seminar on 12 September. Mr Ait-Laoussine specified three issuesconfronting the...