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QatarEnergy, the Gulf country’s state-run petroleum firm, said Wednesday it has agreed to buy a 25% stake in a massive gas project in Iraq, marking the rare entry of a major producer into a market that Western firms have pulled back from in recent years. The Gas Growth Integrated Project, …

Qatar’s state-owned energy giant QatarEnergy has entered into a farm-in agreement for two exploration licenses offshore Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada with ExxonMobil Canada, a subsidiary of the U.S. oil major ExxonMobil. This deal allows the Qatari player to expand its offshore exploration portfolio in Atlantic Canada. QatarEnergy revealed on …

France’s TotalEnergies and Eni have completed the transfer to QatarEnergy of a 30% interest in exploration Blocks 4 and 9 off the coast of Lebanon, the French firm said on January 29. “We are very pleased to welcome QatarEnergy in our exploration acreage in Lebanon. The recent delineation of Lebanon’s …

QatarEnergy and Japan’s Qatar Petroleum Development Company (QPD) have signed a new agreement for the continued development and production of the Al-Karkara and A-Structures oil fields in Qatar. This new five-year agreement, which commenced on December 23, succeeds the development and production sharing agreement signed in December 1997. Under the …

Europe’s biggest economy, Germany, has seen the share of Russian gas in its gas mix drop to some 20% this year from 55% last year, per data from energy lobby group BDEW cited by Bloomberg on Tuesday. Russia started gradually cutting gas supply via the Nord Stream pipeline to Germany …

Qatar has agreed to supply Germany with liquefied natural gas under a long-term deal as the latter continues to seek alternatives to Russian pipeline gas supply. State-owned QatarEnergy signed deals with ConocoPhillips that will see deliveries of about 2m tons of LNG annually to Germany over 15 years, starting in …

The petrochemical facility in Ras Laffan, a collaboration between QatarEnergy and Chevron will comprise an ethane cracker that will produce 1.9m tonne of ethylene per year, an 82 percent output increase making it the biggest of its kind in the region and one of the largest in the world when …

QatarEnergy has announced an oil discovery in the 4-BRSA-1386D-RJS well in Brazil’s world class Sépia oil field, which is located in the prolific Santos Basin in water depths of about 2,000 meters off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. QatarEnergy acquired a working interest in the Sépia Co-Participated Area in …

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 …

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 …