{"id":5908,"date":"2015-03-12T11:47:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T11:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=5908"},"modified":"2015-03-12T11:47:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T11:47:31","slug":"china-india-drive-global-energy-needs-ex-opec-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-india-drive-global-energy-needs-ex-opec-official\/","title":{"rendered":"China, India drive global energy needs: Ex-OPEC official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The global energy industry has seen huge demand from two fast-growing major economies &#8211; China and India &#8211; even as consumption dropped in Europe. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These two countries have launched themselves to a high growth zone,&#8221; said Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah President of the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority ( ACTA). <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take the case of India, from a very classical agrarian-based economy with just textile exports, India has become a giant in industry, IT and many sectors,&#8221; Abdullah was quoted as saying by the Gulf Times. <\/p>\n<p>China and India would need huge amounts of energy to achieve their growth targets. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I therefore believe a consumption drop in Europe will be made up by growing demand for energy in China and India,&#8221; he said on the sidelines of the 5th Gulf Intelligence Doha Energy Forum 2015 in Doha, the capital of Qatar. <\/p>\n<p>He also said OPEC is unlikely to change policy at its next meeting unless other producers cut first. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t advise OPEC to have an extraordinary meeting without having a concrete decision to change policy,&#8221; he said who has been associated with OPEC in different capacities for about 40 years. <\/p>\n<p>OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) is comprised of 12 members that includes Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela amongst others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The global energy industry has seen huge demand from two fast-growing major economies &#8211; China and India &#8211; even as consumption dropped in Europe. &#8220;These two countries have launched themselves to a high growth zone,&#8221; said Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah President of the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority ( ACTA). &#8220;Take the case of India, from a very classical agrarian-based economy with just textile exports, India has become a giant in industry, IT and many sectors,&#8221; Abdullah was quoted as saying by the Gulf Times. China and India would need huge amounts of energy to achieve their growth targets. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}