Qatar’s vitality minister mentioned the emirate will provide two million tons of liquefied gasoline yearly for at the least 15 years.
According to the Qatar authorities, the vitality large Qatar Energy has concluded an settlement on the provision of liquefied pure gasoline to Germany. The gasoline is to be offered to the US firm Conoco Phillips, which is able to ship it to Brunsbüttel, mentioned Qatari Energy Minister Saad Sharida al-Kaab. Delivery is scheduled to start in 2026 and run for at the least 15 years. Up to 2 million tons are to be delivered yearly.
Qatar Energy can be in talks with German firms about additional gasoline deliveries, Al-Kaabi defined. “We have good relations with German companies and with the German government,” he mentioned. The gasoline for the settlement that has now been concluded comes from the 2 Qatari gasoline fields North Field East and North Field South, which lie off the coast of the Gulf state.
Qatar is without doubt one of the world’s largest exporters
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) solely mentioned final week that the acquisition of liquefied pure gasoline (LNG) in Qatar was not off the desk. “German companies are in very concrete talks about which I could tell you more than I will,” mentioned Scholz in a “Focus” interview.
Germany is attempting to interchange lacking gasoline provides from Russia, amongst different issues, with LNG provides, for which a number of terminals are being constructed on the North and Baltic Seas. Qatar is without doubt one of the world’s largest exporters of liquefied pure gasoline. The wealthy emirate has the third largest gasoline reserves on this planet after Russia and Iran. Qatar shares the world’s largest gasoline area with Iran, situated off the nation’s coast. The overwhelming majority of exports go to Asia, thus far primarily to Japan, South Korea and India.
German gasoline storage tanks are full
Although the German gasoline storage amenities at the moment are full, in accordance with business knowledge, their filling stage reached one hundred pc by Tuesday. But liquefied pure gasoline ought to make an extra contribution, Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) speaks of a “central building block for securing our energy supply in the coming winter”.
So far, Germany and different European nations have obtained the LNG obtained through the Netherlands, Belgium or France primarily from the USA. On a visit within the spring, Habeck tried to determine provide relationships with Qatar.
