Russia is responsible for 30-40 percent of Europe’s need for natural gas. Al-Kaabi said during his meeting with journalists in the Qatari capital, Doha, late Tuesday, that no single country can replace this volume.
Qatar hosted the annual summit of the Organization of Gas Producing Countries. The association is called the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) and is usually described as the “Gas Exporting OPEC”.
The Ministry of State in Qatar is made up of a bulge in the Arabian Peninsula, of comparable size to its population. Together with Russia and Iran, Qatar has the largest natural gas reserves in the world.
Qatar’s gas exports consist almost entirely of so-called liquefied natural gas. It means liquefied natural gas or liquefied natural gas. The gas is converted to liquid form and thus becomes independent of pipelines and can be transported on tankers.
But even if Qatar is one of the countries in the world The main exporters of natural gas, therefore, cannot meet the needs that arise in Europe in the case of operating natural gas taps in Russia.
US President Joe Biden held talks with Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani about allowing Qatari gas to be sent as “emergency aid” to Europe, according to the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel.
But the country’s energy minister, Saad al-Kaabi, dashed those hopes when he spoke at the Doha Energy Conference.
Most of our exports go to China, Japan and South Korea and are bound by long-term contracts. It is possible that we will be able to increase exports to Europe by 10, with a maximum of 15 percent, Al-Kaabi said in an interview with Reuters news agency.
The Energy Minister added that managing LNG requires special infrastructure that is not adequately met in Europe.
Currently, about 5 percent of Qatar’s total natural gas exports go to Europe.
Japan is ready to direct a smaller portion of its natural gas imports to Europe, according to Reuters. But this is not a complete solution to the energy shortage that may arise if Russian gas is stopped.
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