Energy shortages: “the worst is yet to come” for Europe, Qatar’s energy minister Saad Al-Kaabi said at a forum in Doha. A Qatari official believes that Europeans will have to face a “reality that will impose itself” if nothing changes in the field of energy supply. Qatar is the third largest exporter of natural gas in the world – after Russia and the US – and holds 12.5% ​​of the world’s natural gas reserves.

Qatar’s energy minister warned on Tuesday that the “worst is yet to come” for Europe’s oil and gas shortages, saying a mild winter had prevented more hardship in recent months. The wealthy Gulf emirate, one of the world’s biggest gas exporters, has been trying to secure long-term contracts with European nations, most of which have long resisted despite a frantic search for alternatives to Russian hydrocarbons.

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