Key assumptions

Secretary General, Chairman of the Editorial Board
Haitham Al Ghais

Director, Research Division, Editor-in-Chief
Ayed S. Al-Qahtani,

Head, Energy Studies Department, Editor
Abderrezak Benyoucef

Main contributors
Chapter 1: Key assumptions
Mohammad AlKazimi, Joerg Spitzy, Jan Ban, Eleni Kaditi, Hans-Peter Messmer, Masudbek Narzibekov, Boris Kudashev, Daniel McKirdy

Chapter 2: Energy demand
Haris Aliefendic, Jan Ban, Reem AlNaeimi, Mohammed Attaba

Chapter 3: Oil demand
Jan Ban, Hans-Peter Messmer, Mohammed Attaba, Christian Diendorfer

Chapter 4: Liquids supply
Julius Walker, Mohammad AlKazimi

Chapter 5: Refining outlook
Haris Aliefendic, Mohammed Attaba

Chapter 6: Oil movements
Haris Aliefendic

Chapter 7: Energy policy, climate change and sustainable development
Julius Walker, Eleni Kaditi, Daniel McKirdy, Boris Kudashev, Irene Etiobhio, Mohammed Attaba, Christian Diendorfer

Chapter 8: Energy scenarios
Jan Ban, Julius Walker, Eleni Kaditi

Other contributors
Behrooz Baikalizadeh, Mohammad Zarie Zare, Mhammed Mouraia, Mohamed Sarrab, Tona Ndamba, Yacine Sariahmed, Asmaa Yaseen, Ali Dehghan, Nadir Guerer, Aziz Yahyai, Pantelis Christodoulides, Douglas Linton, Hannes Eichner, Roland Kammerer, Viveca Hameder, Klaus Stoeger, Mohammad Sattar, Zairul Arifin, Mihni Mihnev, Justinas Pelenis, Mansoureh Ghodsi

Editorial Team
James Griffin

Design & Production Team
Carola Bayer, Andrea Birnbach

Editorial support
Daniel McKirdy, Sonja Soliman, Dorit Aschauer

OPEC’s Economic Commission Board (as of September 2022)
Samir Madani, Ntika Mbiya Ricardo, Antimo Asumu Obama Asangono, Fernand Epigat, Afshin Javan, Mohammed Saadoon Mohsin, Abdullah Al Sabah, Abdulnasser Lamin Mohamed Gnedi, Mele Kyari, Yousef Al Salem, Salem Hareb Al Mehairi, Ronny Rafael Romero Rodriguez

The OPEC Secretariat is grateful for the kind contribution from the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), featured in Chapter 2.

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