OpinionJanine PerrettJournalist, broadcaster and commentatorMay 4, 2026 — 8:00pmMay 4, 2026 — 8:00pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAFew will mourn the demise of the once powerful OPEC cartel more than the so-called “oil paparazzi” who helped mythologise the legend.Saudi Crown Prince Fahd at an OPEC summit in Algiers in 1975 with Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, then Saudi minister of petroleum.Getty Image, digitally tintedFor 66 years, from when a group of predominantly Middle Eastern oil producers formed the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC was the personification of that most evil…