TEHRAN (ISNA)-Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) experts held the 3rd executive committee meeting in Qatar on Monday. GECF ministerial meeting will be held in December in Qatar to pick the Secretary General. Iran has offered to assume the responsibility.

The organization formally established in 2008, involves Algeria, Bolivia, Brunei, Indonesia, Egypt, Iran, Libya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, UAE, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago.

The organization seeks exchanging experiments of the members on gas discovery, extraction, production and transfer, exploring methods to cut gas production costs and studying ways for gas transfer.

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