The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ________. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ________. strives to ensure that developing nations get their fair share of fossil fuels protects their national members' petroleum reserves for their own use functions as a military alliance to protect developed nations' energy reserves functions to take maximum advantage of developed nations dependence on imported oil strives to develop technologies to conserve nonrenewable energy resources