Qatar is seriously considering non-conventional gas investment opportunities in the U.S with its major partners, a top energy official from the Gulf nation said Tuesday.
Qatar
is
seriously considering non-conventional gas investment opportunities in the U.S
with its major partners, a top energy official from the Gulf nation said
Tuesday.
The considerations underscore how some Middle-Eastern producers are seeking to
take advantage of a
U.S.
shale
boom instead of countering it.
On Monday, the International Energy Agency predicted the
U.S.
will
overtake
Saudi Arabia
as
the world's largest oil producer by 2020 thanks to a surge in shale production,
a move that has rattled some in oil-producing circles.
But speaking at an energy conference in
London
,
Nasser
al-Jaidah, chief executive of the international arm of state-owned Qatar
Petroleum, said the
U.S.
non-conventional gas boom "is an opportunity for us. We are considering
this seriously."
He said Qatar Petroleum wanted to partner with oil majors with which it has
already partnered at home.
"It could be [Exxon Mobil Corp.], it could be [Royal Dutch Shell PLC], it
could be anybody else," he said.
Instead of being an hindrance, Mr. al-Jaidah said the
U.S.
gas
boom meant
Qatar
--the
world's largest liquefied-natural-gas exporter--could redirect more supply to
lucrative Asian markets.
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