Qatar plans to use its massive liquefied natural gas expansion to transform the nation into the world’s top trader of the super-chilled fuel. “I think we will be one of the largest, if not the largest, LNG trader in the world,” Saad Al Kaabi, the nation’s energy minister and chief …

China is building a vast array of new coal-fired power stations, potentially more than the operating capacity of the US, even though it knows the plants will probably never be fully used. The puzzle of why the world’s leading installer of clean energy is investing so much in the worst …

The 2022 OPEC World Oil Outlook (WOO) will be launched at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) 2022 in Abu Dhabi Today (Monday, 31 October 2022). OPEC’s Secretary General, Haitham Al Ghais, along with OPEC experts, will present the major findings of the WOO 2022, as well …

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the world faces the most dangerous decade since World War II and predicted that the historical period of the West’s “undivided dominance over world affairs” is coming to an end. Speaking on October 27 at a conference of international policy experts in Moscow, Putin said …

State-owned QatarEnergy is in talks with the Lebanese government to take a 30% stake in an offshore exploration block and is also negotiating with TotalEnergies and ENI on this matter, CEO Saad al-Kaabi confirmed on Sunday. Two sources told Reuters last week that TotalEnergies and the Lebanese government have reached …

If Finland were to cancel its planned rotating blackouts in winter, it could lead to a large-scale national disruption, the country’s electricity grid operator has warned, according to Bloomberg. If the outages do not continue, the resulting uncontrolled blackouts would mean “people could die,” Arto Pahkin, a network manager at …

The 16th Iran-Russia Joint Economic Commission will be hosted by Russia from October 30 to November 1. Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji is the head of the Iranian delegation of this joint commission and Alexander Novak, the deputy prime minister of Russia, is also the head of the Iran-Russia joint …

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) has maintained its view that global oil demand will rise for another decade, longer than many other forecasters predict, in a forthcoming major report, despite the growing role of renewables and electric cars, two OPEC sources said. The OPEC, is scheduled to update …

Iran’s oil minister will head to Russia on Monday for the 16th joint economic commission of the two countries, with the finalization of the 40-billion-dollar memorandum of understanding in oil and gas sector topping the agenda of the visit. The visit comes on the heels of the meetings of different …

The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has stated that UK Royal Navy officials took part in the planning and implementation of a terrorist attack on the Nord Stream network in the Baltic Sea on September 26th. “According to available information, Royal Navy representatives took part in the planning and implementation …