The Dominican Republic purchases natural gas from the United States and Trinidad & Tobago. Now,
Qatar wants to sell its natural gas to the Dominican Republic. Qatar is the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas.
In an interview published in El Dia, the business attache for the Qatar Embassy in Santo Domingo, Khalid Al Sharshani said that the country is the third largest producer of gas in the world and the largest producer of liquefied natural gas with 79 million tonnes a year. He said the possibility of starting Qatar natural gas exports to the Dominican Republic will be discussed during the scheduled visit of Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas to Qatar.
The Dominican Republic has had an embassy in Qatar since 2005. Two years later, in 2007, Qatar became the first Arab state to open an embassy in the Dominican Republic. Seven bilateral agreements have been signed in education, tourism, business, tax evasion and aviation services.
The Medina administration recently appointed experienced Dominican ambassador Federico Cuello to be ambassador in Qatar. Cuello for years had served as Dominican ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Saad al-Kaabi, the country’s energy minister, recently said in a press conference that the gulf state had reviewed ways to enhance its role internationally, and would be focusing on its gas industry. Qatar wants to ramp up liquefied natural gas production from 77m to 110m tonnes a year.
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El Dia
The Guardian
7 March 2019