Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Australia Poised to Become World’s Largest LNG Exporter

From The Houston Chronicle Within the next 12 months Australia is likely to surpass Qatar as the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, the Energy Information Administration is forecasting. Australian LNG capacity reached 11.4 billion cubic feet a day this year, more than four times what it was in 2011 and surpassing Qatar’s capacity. Australia “exported more LNG than

Oryx Midstream Lands $550 Million from Qatar Investment Authority - Oil & Gas 360

Oryx Midstream Lands $550 Million from Qatar Investment Authority

By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Qatar Investment Authority acquires significant stake in Oryx Midstream Services from an affiliate of Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), the country’s sovereign wealth fund, will be acquiring a significant interest in Permian crude operator Oryx Midstream Services from an affiliate of Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, in addition to chipping in

Chevron Phillips and Qatar Petroleum Team Up Again - Oil & Gas 360

Chevron Phillips and Qatar Petroleum Team Up Again

By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 New $8 billion project would include 2,000 KTA ethylene cracker Petrochemical company Chevron Phillips – equally owned by Chevron Corporation and Phillips 66 – has formed another joint venture with Qatar Petroleum (QP), this time to build an $8 billion petrochemical plant in the Gulf Coast region of the United States.

Chevron Phillips and Qatar Petroleum Form JV - Oil & Gas 360

Chevron Phillips and Qatar Petroleum Form JV

By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Chevron Phillips to have 30% stake in new petrochemical plant Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC – equally owned by Chevron Corporation and Phillips 66 – and Qatar Petroleum (QP) have inked a deal for the development, construction and operation of a new petrochemicals complex in Qatar. The facility, to be built

Exxon, Qatar Will Break Ground on $10 Billion Golden Pass LNG Plant Monday

Expect first shipments from Golden Pass in 2024 From Reuters Exxon Mobil Corp and Qatar Petroleum told the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Thursday they would start construction of the $10 billion-plus Golden Pass liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Texas on May 13. Exxon and Qatar Petroleum made a final investment decision to build the project

Newcomers Pile into Race For Qatar LNG

From Reuters Qatar is preparing to issue a tender for energy firms seeking a stake in its gas expansion project, drawing interest from long-standing partners as well as newcomers Chevron, Norway’s Equinor and Italy’s Eni, industry sources said. Plans to expand Qatar’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities, already the world’s largest, by more than a third in the next five

Qatar Petroleum’s Quest to Invest $20 Billion In U.S. Includes Conventional, Unconventional Upstream Assets

Qatar Petroleum CEO looking to U.S. for “gas and oil, conventional and non-conventional” CEO said U.S. Congress’s proposed NOPEC bill is one reason Qatar is departing OPEC From Reuters Qatar Petroleum (QP) is looking to invest at least $20 billion in the United States over the coming few years, its chief executive told Reuters, after the Gulf Arab state unexpectedly

Globe’s Leading LNG Producer Pulls Out of OPEC

Qatar, OPEC member since 1961, says it’s time to split Just three days before the opening of its 175th “Ordinary Meeting” in Vienna, OPEC appears to be splintering. Even as the group works toward a second production cut, Qatar announced it will leave the cartel in January. Qatar joined OPEC in 1961, only one year after the cartel was formed.

A Penn State Engineer’s Quest to Become the World’s Gas King

From Bloomberg It’s the opposite of a meteoric rise. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi was a teenager when he joined Qatar Petroleum in 1986, still an engineering student at Pennsylvania State University. He climbed slowly through the ranks, finally becoming chief executive officer in 2014 and managing projects that cemented Qatar’s role as the world’s top exporter of liquefied natural gas. On Sunday, Al-Kaabi

PetroChina Inks Its Biggest Qatar LNG Deal as U.S. Trade at Risk

From Bloomberg PetroChina Co. signed a deal with Qatargas Operating Co. to purchase 3.4 million tons of liquefied natural gas annually, the Chinese company’s biggest supply deal, amid a brewing trade war with the U.S. that threatens to stifle the Asian nation’s purchases of American fuel. Under the 22-year agreement, Qatargas will supply LNG from the Qatargas 2 project, a joint venture between

5 Main Competitors to U.S. LNG Dominance

From E&E News The United States is rapidly increasing its exports of liquefied natural gas. But it isn’t the only nation doing so or that has plans to do so. The addition of the Cove Point LNG plant in Maryland brings the number of major LNG export centers in the U.S. outside Alaska to two. Sabine Pass in Louisiana became

Present Day Middle Eastern Game of Thrones – Part Two

[EDITOR’S NOTE: this is the final installment of the OAG360 story in which Helen El Mallakh, director of the International Research Center for Energy and Economic Development (ICEED), discusses the changing political scene and the shifting geopolitical sands that are challenging the balance of oil producers in the Middle East. El Mallakh was keynote speaker at the Energy Finance Discussion