OPEC Secretary-General Mohammed Barkindo, who helped forge the creation of the 23-member OPEC+ coalition, has died at the age of 63, less than one month before he was supposed to be replaced by Kuwait’s Haitham al-Ghais. “OPEC Secretary-General, HE Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, passed away yesterday in his home country Nigeria. He was the much-loved leader of the OPEC Secretariat and his passing is a profound loss to the entire OPEC Family, the oil industry and the international community,” OPEC said on twitter Barkindo, a Nigerian oil veteran who was due to wrap up his six-year tenure as OPEC secretary-general at the end of July, was a guest of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari earlier on July 5. Buhari had commended Barkindo’s contribution and efforts in rallying fellow OPEC members and non-OPEC producers in enforcing the Declaration of Cooperation, the pact binding OPEC’s 13 members, Russia and nine other countries. As […]