🇶🇦🇪🇺⛽️:Global security; energy security;
Fantastic analysis by
@abedakbari, European Affairs Analyst: Qatar’s Sustainable Energy Diplomacy Model
Follow up to Qatar’s recent threat of LNG supply withdrawal from EU markets:
Key takeaways:
🥉By investment in infrastructure and liquefaction, Qatar became one of world’s top LNG exporters
⛽️They use North Field natural gas reservoir (shared geographically with Iran, located in Persian Gulf)
🪖Post Russia-Ukraine war, it became one of the important gas suppliers, ensuring security, due to stability of supply, multi decade contracts
🌏Europe’s Green Deal by 2050 provided opportunity for Qatar to build ports, ships, terminals, creating LNG logistics chain dependency, knowing EU's LNG demand will be reducing
🇧🇪Geopolitically also leveraging Qatar’s presence in Brussels
⚡️Further investments in solar energy, carbon capture and methane emission reduction turned Qatar into one of the clean energy transitioning countries
⏩Qatar’s energy diplomacy prospect scenarios?
#1: maintaining current status by increasing capacity and solidifying contracts
#2: energy transition pressure and EU demand reduction, forcing it to exit EU, redirecting to African and Latin American markets with flexible contracts
#3: Attritional competition; supply increase from US and Australia, forces Qatar to a price competition
Reading it, I could only think of Iran and it's lost potentials
از یادداشت جدیدم در شماره مهر ماه
#دلوارنامه:
از منظر استراتژیک، قطر میتواند در دهه پیشرو به پلی میان خاورمیانه و اروپا بدل شود؛ پلی که نه تنها گاز، بلکه فناوریهای سبز، سرمایه گذاریهای مشــترک و همکاری های امنیتی را نیــز منتقل میکند.