HE Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Qatar’s minister of state for Energy Affairs, met in Washington DC with Jennifer M. Granholm, US Secretary of Energy.
“Discussions during the meeting dealt with bilateral relations in the field of energy between Qatar and the U.S. and means to enhance them,” according to an official press release.
It’s important to note that Qatar left the OPEC alliance in 2019 to focus on gas production. Qatar’s decision to end its nearly 60-year-old membership in OPEC had caught many observers by surprise.
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Meanwhile, tension between OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia and US continues following OPEC’s decision to cut oil output, which, US says is a clear indication that Saudis are siding with Russia.
In response, Saudi Arabia released an unusually detailed statement, attributed to a Saudi Foreign Ministry official, in which Saudi Arabia slammed the accusations from the Biden administration, denying that the cuts were “politically motivated.”