Gas Exporting Countries Forum
Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) | |
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Members (blue) and observers (orange) of the Gas-Exporting Countries Forum. | |
| Headquarters | Doha, Qatar |
| Official language | English |
| Type | Trade forum |
| Members | 12 member states 8 observer states |
| Leaders | |
• Secretary General | Mohammad Hamel |
| Establishment | Tehran, Iran |
• Forum | May 20, 2001 |
• Statute | December 23, 2008 |
| Area | |
• Total | 26,965,287.87 km2 (10,411,355.85 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Estimate | 599,861,442 |
• Density | 22.2/km2 (57.5/sq mi) |
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The Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) is an intergovernmental organization currently comprising 20 countries of the world's leading natural gas producers i.e. Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela are members while Angola, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Mozambique, Malaysia, Norway, Peru and Senegal are observers. GECF members together control over 71% of the world's natural proven gas reserves, 44% of its marketed production, 53% of the pipeline, and 57% of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports across the globe. It is headquartered in Doha, Qatar.