Liquid Natural Gas conspiracy tied to Qatar?
39 2017-06-09 by ver0egiusto
One of the key things that stood out to me when reading articles about the "Qatar Crisis" and all of the Gulf states cutting diplomatic ties with them was the consistent mention of how the country earned its wealth -- as a significant Natural Gas exporter.
Saw this article today, how the Qatar crisis is causing Liquid Natural Gas prices to surge in the UK:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gulf-qatar-lng-usa-idUSKBN18Z1LK
Also saw that today, the US shipped its first tanker of LNG to Poland, establishing a footprint in the LNG market in central Europe -- video statement below. Also, articles propagandizing the move as Poland taking a "significant step forward in wresting itself from Russia’s energy dominance" like the one below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NudaaA9kDRA
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/08/first-u-s-natural-gas-shipped-to-poland/
In the video, US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert mentions the name of the company facilitating this entire who-knows-how-many-billions-of-dollars endeavor. Cheniere Energy . This company, a massive entity that is being contracted by the United States, does not have a wikipedia page in English. There was one in German though that I looked into and found a name for the former CEO.
The former CEO of the company, Charif Souki, does have a wiki page . He left the company after "differences with Board member Carl Ichan." Yes, Special Advisor to the President on Regulatory Reform Carl Ichan is a board member for Cheniere Energy.
These days Souki is heading Tellurian Investments, an investment company in the LNG space that strives to "Secure low-cost natural gas" among other ominous-sounding objectives in light of the Qatar crisis. Apparently the company "expects to earn no revenue until 2022, and needs to raise between $13.0 billion and $15.6 billion in order for its LNG project to proceed."
The other head of Tellurian is Martin Houston , a member of the Oil And Gas Council . Looks like a nice think tank with a price fixing objective in 2022 once their "project" is completed. Perhaps their Project being a pipeline from an overthrown Qatar.
The US cannot compete with Russian energy as is right now. Countries buy orders-of-magnitude more expensive Nagural Gas from the US just to spit in Russia's face, but this is not sustainable. In order to keep this business line open, and more importantly, profitiable, the US needs to secure a cheaper way to get gas into Europe. Artificially high prices for electricity/gas/etc. for European citizens due to political grandstanding against Russia is not sustainable. Citizens are getting mad.
Natural-Gas-rich Qatar, surrounded by aggravated and aggressive US allies, is looking like a nice ground zero for a 2022 completed pipeline project if you ask me.
4 comments
n/a Pipewrecker 2017-06-09
Great post op. This is awesome conspiracy material.
n/a trytheCOLDchai 2017-06-09
i agree
n/a AfterSchoolPogrom 2017-06-09
I think it has more to do with the fact that Qatar has political ties to Iran.
n/a mastigia 2017-06-09
So, all Europe would need to do to relieve its onerous energy costs is to accept natural gas from Russia?
Well, not very often you can point a finger at one tiny thing and explain why most of the world is fucked the way it is, but I think I can point that finger.
What can be done though? How do you Europeans feel about this?
n/a get_it_together1 2017-06-09
Russia has been willing to use its energy supplies to achieve political outcomes in the past. Additionally, Russia supplies a lot of natural gas to Europe. So, I'd imagine Europeans would look at you questioningly.
n/a Afrobean 2017-06-09
Yep through a new proposed pipeline in Syria, right?