No. As of July 27, 2012 the current members of OPEC include Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela.
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OPEC is an organisation, not a place, so no country is located in it. Egypt is not a member of OPEC.
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Not all Southwest Asian countries are part of OPEC but over half of OPEC's membership comes from Southwest Asia and a good number of Southwest Asian countries are OPEC members.
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The U.S. is not part of OPEC because OPEC stands for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, and the U.S. is a major oil producer but not a member of this organization. OPEC is mainly composed of oil-rich countries that collaborate to coordinate oil production and pricing to stabilize the market.
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