Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi

Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi (born 1967) is Qatar's Minister of State for Energy Affairs since 2018 and the president and CEO of QatarEnergy, the state corporation that runs the country's oil and gas activities. A petroleum engineer who graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1991, he joined the company in 1986, led Qatar's expansion in liquefied natural gas, and was Qatar's lead voice in the 2022 gas-supply talks with Europe. ^{1 2 3}

Al-Kaabi entered Pennsylvania State University in 1986 to study petroleum and natural gas engineering, graduating in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree. ¹

Al-Kaabi joined QatarEnergy — then Qatar Petroleum — in 1986, during his studies, and after graduating worked in its Reservoir and Field Development Department, rising through petroleum engineering, technical, commercial and supervisory posts; the Arabic article adds that he became gas development manager with responsibility for the North Field. ^{1 2} He and his team are credited with launching gas projects in short periods that contributed to Qatar's rise in liquefied natural gas and gas-to-liquids production. ¹ He is chairman of Industries Qatar, and in 2018 he was appointed Minister of State for Energy Affairs. ¹ In February 2022 he chaired the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Doha, and during that year's energy crisis he met Germany's Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck and the EU's energy commissioner Kadri Simson to discuss LNG supplies to Europe, with Germany and Qatar signing an energy partnership agreement in May 2022. ¹

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