Since 2018, QatarEnergy has been staking out its position as an international oil company on the world stage, beyond its role as a national oil company. Its international upstream strategy has focused on low-cost farm-ins and partnerships in offshore exploration assets.
“We want to be with the main players,” QatarEnergy CEO Saad al-Kaabi told MEES in 2019, “we don’t see ourselves as a national oil company per se anymore, we look at ourselves as like any other IOC” (MEES, 1 November 2019). (CONTINUED - 1086 WORDS)
