Qatar

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September 26, 2018
The world’s biggest producer of liquefied natural gas wants to bulk up as competing supplies from Australia and the U.S. are also set to come to the market over the next decade.
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September 10, 2018
PetroChina signed a deal with Qatargas Operating to purchase 3.4 MM tons of LNG annually, the Chinese company’s biggest supply deal.
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July 2018
EnerMech has appointed Salvatore Cutino as regional director for Africa, based in Cape Town, South Africa.
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June 26, 2018
Qatar Petroleum, the world’s biggest seller of liquefied natural gas, is looking to get even larger, investing $20 billion in America’s oil and gas fields at a time when rival U.S. exporters are expanding.
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May 04, 2018
Qatar emerged as a major shareholder in Rosneft PJSC on Friday after a $9-billion deal to sell a stake in Russia’s state-run oil producer to China’s troubled CEFC Energy Co. collapsed.
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March 29, 2018
Rosneft has opened an office of the International Center for Research and Development in Qatar, which will become a full-scale representative office of the Company, performing along with scientific and technical activities, and also functions to promote various business areas of the Company in the region.
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March 13, 2018
The debate over how to price natural gas is settled, at least for exporters, and oil-indexing should prevail.
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February 2018
Downhole turbines are a solution in hard and abrasive formations, otherwise inaccessible with conventional motors.
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January 31, 2018
Tiny OPEC producer Qatar is paying the price for top member Saudi Arabia’s oil strategy in Asia.
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January 31, 2018
Qatar is paying the price for top member Saudi Arabia’s oil strategy in Asia.
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January 25, 2018
Qatar managed to keep liquefied natural gas exports flowing last year even under a Saudi-led embargo, passing its first test in its plans to expand LNG production.
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January 01, 2018
For as long as Gulf economies rely on oil, crude will be a factor in determining how investors trade regional markets. But right now, politics is king.
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December 28, 2017
Gulf Arab energy companies issued record debt this year as producers opted to exploit lower borrowing costs to fund expansion plans.
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October 30, 2017
Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa called for the freezing of Qatar’s Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) membership, escalating attempts by a Saudi-led coalition to deepen the isolation of the gas-rich country.
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October 2017
Middle East/North Africa grapples with production cut commitment, despite urge to boost output
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October 02, 2017
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund is weighing more asset sales after reducing holdings in Credit Suisse Group AG and Rosneft PJSC to support the country’s economy amid a standoff with its neighbors, according to people familiar with the matter.
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September 13, 2017
Qatar, the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, is fulfilling all of its contracted shipments of oil and gas despite a regional political crisis that led to the severing of ties with some of its neighbors, the Gulf country’s energy minister said.
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August 17, 2017
Qatar’s economy will expand this year at the slowest pace since 1995, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg this month, as the impact of a Saudi Arabia-led boycott is felt on trade and investor confidence.
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August 16, 2017
Woodside Petroleum, Australia’s largest LNG producer, expects rival Qatar to target the emerging markets of India and Pakistan with a new wave of supply next decade.
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July 31, 2017
The Saudi-led alliance that severed ties with Qatar reinstated a list of 13 demands that must be met before talks to resolve the eight-week crisis could start.
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July 14, 2017
OPEC would hurt itself and help U.S. shale producers if it adopted deeper cuts, the former oil minister of Qatar warned.
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