He noted that he would not talk about the onset of a "major global recession."

“That said, I think, where you are right, we are seeing signs of a potential energy crisis that will come in the winter,” al-Ghais said in an interview with Bloomberg.

The OPEC Secretary General added that he did not know what the crisis would be like.

Earlier, Igor Yushkov, a leading expert of the National Energy Security Fund, commented on the situation in the EU energy industry in an interview with PolitExpert.