TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) – Iran nominated Hadi Nejad-Hosseinian, deputy oil minister for international affairs, as the OPEC secretary general, Ministry of Oil announced here Monday.

Secretaries of OPEC member states are to meet in Vienna on Wednesday, September 24, to start the 127th official session of the organization.

Topping the OPEC agenda would be discussions over oil price fluctuations, determining members’ production levels as well as surveying how supply and demand are moving through the oil market.

Meanwhile, BBC cited that Adnan Shahab al-Din, director of OPEC’s Research Center, and the current secretary general of the organization, Alvaro Silva Caldron as two other candidates for the job.

The OPEC’s Supervision Committee of Secretaries, headed this time by the Iranian Oil Minister, Bijan Zangeneh, will be held later today.