by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Energy & LNG
⚡ TL;DRQatar left OPEC in January 2019 after more than fifty years of membership, announcing the decision weeks earlier. The move was framed as a technical focus on gas rather than a political rupture, but the timing and context made it one of the most revealing...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Energy & LNG
⚡ TL;DRThe industry spent a decade moving toward short, flexible, hub-linked LNG contracts. Then Qatar signed a series of 20 and 27-year agreements with Chinese, European and Asian buyers and reversed the trend. The reason is structural: someone has to...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Energy & LNG
⚡ TL;DRThree exporters dominate LNG: Qatar competes on cost and contract duration, the United States on flexibility and speed of build, Australia on proximity to Asia and existing infrastructure. Qatar wins the low-price scenario, the US wins the volatile-market...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Energy & LNG
⚡ TL;DRNakilat owns and operates the world’s largest LNG shipping fleet by capacity, including the Q-Max and Q-Flex giants built specifically for Qatari cargoes. It is a listed company with a state-backed charter book, near-total contract coverage, and a...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Energy & LNG
⚡ TL;DRThe North Field expansion is the largest LNG project in history: three phases — East, South and West — lifting Qatar’s capacity from about 77 million tonnes a year to roughly 142 million tonnes by around 2030. Qatar is funding most of it...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Energy & LNG
⚡ TL;DRQatarEnergy is the state-owned company that turned a single offshore gas field into roughly a quarter of the world’s traded LNG. Its advantage is not technology or scale alone but cost: the North Field produces gas so cheaply, and with such valuable...
