Qatar’s gas contract with China is in line with Doha’s efforts to find reliable allies

According to the report of the International Economic Group of Fars News Agency, Saad Al-Kaabi, the head of Qatar Energy Company, announced last Monday that his company has signed a 27-year purchase and sale agreement with China’s Sinopec Company, which is the longest-term contract in the history of liquefied natural gas contracts. LNG) is

Following the start of Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, the competition to buy LNG has intensified, and Europe is in a special position of needing large quantities of LNG to help replace Russia’s pipeline gas intake, which accounted for about 40% of the continent’s imports.

In this regard, Qatari political analyst “Abdullah Al-Duzin” told Sputnik that the action of Doha and Beijing in concluding the longest agreement in the world for the supply of liquefied natural gas does not indicate any attempt to exert pressure or gain political concessions, but rather the daggers that Qatar has received from the West. It has been adopted.

According to the Doha-Qatar agreement, the state-owned Qatar Energy Company will send four million tons of liquefied natural gas annually from its new project in the North East field (joint field with Iran, South Pars) to China’s Sinopec Oil and Chemical Company.

Al-Udzin emphasized that the agreement signed between the two countries is not an attempt to exert political pressure, but is the result of events and political positions that may later affect the agreements that Qatar can sign with some countries.

He added: Qatar has experience in long-term gas and energy supply contracts in general, especially with Asian countries such as China, South Korea, and Japan, and it clearly knows with whom and how to sign long-term contracts.

Qatar’s political analyst emphasized that Doha’s allies in the West, especially France, Germany and England, are turning a blind eye to many positions of their media, including the state media, in order to weaken Qatar at this critical time of holding the Janam World Games.

He added: With these positions, the Western media is looking for the unacceptable kind of blackmail that the Qatari authorities are tired of, and it has come to the point where they say the Westerners should go and their problems go beyond gay rights and allegations of workers’ rights violations to handle

Westerners criticize Qatar in its treatment of migrant workers, as well as the rights of women and the gay community, and on the eve of the World Cup, these criticisms have increased; But Doha, by rejecting the claims of the Westerners, emphasizes that such claims are made with racist motives towards an Arab Muslim country.

“Gianni Infantino”, the president of the World Football Federation (FIFA), also defended Qatar’s hosting of the 2022 World Cup last Saturday in front of critics and called Westerners hypocrites.

He emphasized: Western slogans and moral lessons originate from hypocrisy. The conditions of workers in Qatar are better than those of immigrants in Europe.

The political analyst of Qatar added: “Given its more than 25 years of experience in the gas field, Qatar now knows in which direction to direct its long-term contracts and also knows who uses such contracts for political pressure or approval of unacceptable agendas.” .

This analyst continued: We know that energy should not be involved in politics in any way. When the three Gulf countries (Persian) surrounded Qatar, Qatar did not stop the flow of energy and was willing to continue exporting its energy, especially to the UAE, which was one of the three countries that sanctioned Qatar, without being affected by the relationship. to give

He said: By signing such long-term contracts, Qatar sought to show who is united in energy and does not confuse its dubious policies and plans with energy. Because any reduction in energy supply will reflect on the situation of nations and the poor.

Qatar Energy Minister and Qatar Energy CEO Saad Sharidah Al Kaabi said after signing the agreement on Monday that the agreement with China supports the excellent bilateral relations between the People’s Republic of China and the country of Qatar and helps meet China’s growing needs in energy. .

While Sinopec Chairman Ma Yongsheng, who attended the virtual signing ceremony from Beijing, said the agreement was a milestone; Because Qatar is the largest supplier of LNG in the world and China is the largest importer of LNG in the world.

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