{"id":205294,"date":"2018-12-03T17:47:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T20:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=205294"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:39:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:39:34","slug":"qatar-says-to-exit-opec-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/qatar-says-to-exit-opec-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar says to exit OPEC in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 Qatar\u2019s minister of Energy Saad Al Kaabi (<em>pictured above<\/em>), announced this Monday (3) that his country will pull out of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) next January. Qatar is the biggest exporter of natural gas in the world. According to Kaabi, the goal is to \u201cfocus on the gas business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke with [OPEC\u2019s} secretary-general, I told him that we want to focus on the gas business,\u201d Kaabi said. The announcement comes ahead of OPEC\u2019s Thursday (6) meeting. The Qatari minister said the decision to pull out \u201chas nothing to do\u201d with the economic blockade in place against Doha by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt since June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Aljazeera TV<\/em><\/a> said the country is looking to increase natural gas output from 77 million tons to 110 million tons per year. Qatar\u2019s oil production, on the other hand, went from 728,000 bpd in 2013 to 607,000 bpd in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Doha newspaper\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepeninsulaqatar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Peninsula<\/em><\/a>\u2019s online version reported that the choice to focus on gas does not mean the country is leaving oil behind. Kaabi ensured that the country will go on producing oil and seeking industry deals elsewhere in the world, Brazil included. <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/qatar-petroleums-one-of-the-winners-of-brazils-oil-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A consortium of oil companies including Qatar Petroleum won bids for three exploration and production concessions in Brazil in less than a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar has been an OPEC member country since 1961. It is the member with the smallest territory and population, but boasts the world\u2019s third biggest natural gas reserves, at 23.8 trillion cubic meters.<\/p>\n<p><em>*With information from EFE and the ANBA Newsroom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-205282\">Anne Levasseur\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country is the leading exporter of natural gas in the world. The Qatari minister of Energy, Saad al Kaabi, said the goal is to \u2018focus on the gas business.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":205282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[2188,36032,3061,1964,2168,510],"class_list":{"0":"post-205294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-export","9":"tag-gas-natural-en","10":"tag-natural-gas","11":"tag-oil","12":"tag-opec","13":"tag-qatar"},"wps_subtitle":"The country is the leading exporter of natural gas in the world. The Qatari minister of Energy, Saad al Kaabi, said the goal is to \u2018focus on the gas business.\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}