According to the International Energy Agency, a positive future awaits the natural gas market over the next five years. With Qatar preparing its export plans, Dohas two major suppliers reveal which regions they will target and why. Jamie Stewart reports. Qatars giant state-owned natural gas companies are preparing for a global push to secure [...]
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Feature: Qatar’s lucrative hydrocarbon game
Qatars exposure to global oil and gas prices is immense, with volatile international events able to influence Dohas spending power. So how is the market bearing up in light of the peninsulas huge budgetary needs? Edward Jameson reports. The world of oil and gas trade is a volatile, unpredictable and potentially lucrative one, in which [...]
read moreNews: RasGas sees huge demand growth for LNG in Asia
Doha, Qatar 06 June, 2012: Strong demand growth for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Asia and the anticipated start-up of new import terminals in southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent will drive the demand for LNG to new heights in the next phase of development, said RasGas Company Limiteds (RasGas) Managing Director, Hamad Rashid [...]
read moreCan Doha learn from Spains clean energy journey?
In recent years Qatar has benefitted from its ability to forge friendships with a host of other countries. And through its latest relationship-building exercise, this time with Spain, Doha stands to gain in the field of renewable energy. Jamie Stewart reports. At the national scale, the energy sectors of Qatar and Spain, in southwestern Europe, [...]
read moreNews: Tempting Asia Qatars LNG Pricing Strategy
Qatar currently enjoys a dominant position as the globe’s largest LNG supplier. But as rival exporters ramp up production capacity and emerging economies become the drivers of Asian demand growth, Doha may be forced to rethink its strategy. Jamie Stewart reports. On 12 February 2012, Qatari energy giant RasGas formally finalised a mega liquefied natural [...]
read moreQPI Signs Deal with UKs Centrica
Qatars recent memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United Kingdom is to extend into the international gas market, explains Jamie Stewart Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) signed a major deal early in December with United Kingdom (UK) based energy utility Centrica to explore and cooperate on energy related investments. Potential investment targets include new or [...]
read moreQatar and Scotland: Shared Energy Values
Qatar and Scotland are two countries separated by 6000 kilometres, social, cultural and linguistic distinctions and roughly 30 degrees Celsius average temperatures. Yet, as Jamie Stewart reveals, an unlikely relationship is emerging between the two nations. Twenty minutes drive from the centre of Glasgow, Scotland, spread across an exposed, grassy, Northern European moor, is the [...]
read moreLPG: Is There Much of a Good Thing?
Natural gas is a boom industry in the United States (US) and Canada, and the number of new gas wells is increasing steadily. Combine that with the growth in production of so-called unconventionals, such as shale gas, then factor in a coming wave in synthetic fuel production, and all the ingredients are in place to [...]
read moreGTL: Qatar Keeping the Options Open
When it comes to making the most of hydrocarbon resources, diversify and prosper is the best policy, argues Andrew Jamieson. Qatar is blessed with huge hydrocarbon resources. After Russia and Iran, its gas resources are the third most abundant in the world. And even better, much of the gas is concentrated just off Qatars northeast [...]
read moreLNG: Qatars Long-term Export Plans
The rise of Asian economies has had a dramatic impact on Qatars long-term gas export plans. Does the recent Qatargas deal with European energy giant Centrica indicate that 2014 could be the year when Asia truly rises to the forefront from Dohas perspective? Edward Jameson investigates On the 23rd of February 2011, Doha-headquartered gas industry [...]
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