{"id":4074,"date":"2026-05-17T07:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/17\/uae-cites-economic-strategy-in-opec-departure-not-politics\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:29:14","slug":"uae-cites-economic-strategy-in-opec-departure-not-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/17\/uae-cites-economic-strategy-in-opec-departure-not-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Cites Economic Strategy in OPEC Departure, Not Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates has announced its departure from OPEC and OPEC+, stating the decision is rooted in its long-term economic strategy and national interest, rather than political considerations. Energy Minister Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei reaffirmed the UAE&#8217;s commitment to maintaining global energy market stability. This move is accompanied by accelerated efforts to expand oil export capacity through new pipeline projects, aiming to secure energy supply routes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/18\/uae-says-its-decision-to-leave-opec-was-a-strategic-economic-move-not-a-political-one.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates has announced its departure from OPEC and OPEC+, stating the decision is rooted in its long-term economic strategy and national interest, rather than political considerations. Energy Minister Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei reaffirmed the UAE&#8217;s commitment to maintaining global energy market stability. This move is accompanied by accelerated efforts to expand oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnbc.com\/dims\/dims\/FDA9329C197E437CB4C47028C59071C0\/crop\/1690x951\/0x0\/1495x841\/resize\/660x371&amp;quality=90","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","category-global-security","rifnote_country-iran","rifnote_country-saudi-arabia","rifnote_country-uae","rifnote_executive-suhail-mohamed-al-mazrouei"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnbc.com\/dims\/dims\/FDA9329C197E437CB4C47028C59071C0\/crop\/1690x951\/0x0\/1495x841\/resize\/660x371&amp;quality=90","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}