Former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mohammed Barkindo, has been confirmed the next Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Mr Barkindo, who was the NNPC GMD from 2009 to 2010 also had been the acting Secretary-General of OPEC in 2006.
Effective from August 1, 2016, he will be replacing Libyan Minister of Oil and present Secretary General of OPEC, Abdalla El-Badri, for a three-year tenure.
This announcement was made on Thursday, the 2nd of June, after the 169th meeting of the conference of OPEC held in Vienna, Austria.