# Qatar signs long-term LNG supply deals with European buyers after the invasion

Date: 2022

## The fact

In late 2022 QatarEnergy signed long-term LNG supply agreements with European buyers as the EU replaced Russian pipeline gas. Tamim politically owned the export state.

## Context

Saad al-Kaabi’s QatarEnergy signed. Germany and others were counterparties. He did not write a Council embargo. North Field expansion is the capacity parent.

North Field expansion is capacity. [Putin](/people/vladimir-putin)’s invasion is 24 February on another row.

The emir of Qatar is head of state and, in practice, of government under the 2004 constitution as applied. He does not write FIFA statutes, UN Security Council resolutions, Hamas military orders, or ILO conventions by himself.

## Evidence and sources

QatarEnergy carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: late-2022 QatarEnergy long-term LNG deals with European buyers, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later German household-bill coefficient from signing day.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

QatarEnergy signed. European utilities bought. The EU wrote its own Russian-gas exit.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Qatar signs long-term LNG supply deals with European buyers after the invasion, not a later speech about Qatar signs long-term LNG supply deals with European buyers after the invasion.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Qatar signs long-term LNG supply deals with European buyers after the invasion on 2022-11-29 is not a licence to treat every later QatarEnergy communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Qatar signs long-term LNG supply deals with European buyers after the invasion into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He owned the export state. QatarEnergy signed. European utilities bought. The EU wrote its own Russian-gas exit. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Tamim bin Hamad Al: https://factrail.ai/people/tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani

## Drivers

- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security
- Natural-Gas Supply Diversification: https://factrail.ai/drivers/natural-gas-supply-diversification

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/qatar-europe-lng-deals-2022/
- https://www.qatarenergy.qa/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/qa-lng-europe-2022