Qatar Eyes Possible Upstream Investments in Russia and Africa

摘要

Qatar appears to have embarked on a concerted effort to raise its global profile. Not only were top officials in Moscow this week discussing potential involvement in a deal on Russia’s Arctic Yamal peninsula, but Qatar has just signed a memorandum of understanding with French Total on joint upstream investment in Africa. Talks in Moscow focused on ways that Russia and Qatar — among the world’s leading gas producers and resource holders — might adjust to changing global energy markets.