opec. and its announcement to leave comes a year after saudi arabia together with some of the gulf states to sort of sanctions qatar accusing it of harboring terrorism and it comes just days ahead of a crucial opec meeting in vienna which overshadows that meeting which tries to show unity as the cartel is fighting sliding oil prices so there's very much political elements to what carter saying is an economic decision though even though. its relationship with saudi arabia has nothing to do with it economically however yes this is a very interesting move i mean for one qatar is only the elevons biggest all producer of opec accounts for less than two percent of the overall output so qatar leaving opaque won't have a big impact on oil markets but qatar is the world's biggest exporter of liquid natural gas and it would it wants to expand to that market even more. together with