Qatar's Energy Minister says West is feeling the consequences of 'demonising' oil companies

In an exclusive interview with Sky News, Qatar's Energy Minister Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi says the West who spent years "demonising oil and gas companies" are now reaping the consequences with soaring energy bills.
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[@duckndive.]

It's simply a diplomatic way of saying "What goes around, comes around". These old proverbs still apply today.

[@jake_wilkinson]

Essentially, he is saying ‘it’s your own fault’ and he is completely right.

[@lurker668]

Yep, basically greed is what rekt EU and West.

[@nowisgodinyourlovelylife717]

Middle Easterner lecturing to Westerner. How comic democracy is ruined and our politicians laughed at our faces.

[@SwordOfTheSpirit-I-]

Interviewer seemed confused when the Qatari business man said that this energy crisis started before the Russia-Ukraine conflict!

[@davidw460]

Ha ha, classic isn’t it !

[@sidhussain915]

Yes because they cut Iran and Venezuela out of the market for control

[@michaelparkinson3439]

Yes agree totally, the Ukraine crisis is only a bit part to the overall problem we are seeing. Energy bills were already increasing and with it inflation. We are in a complete mess.

[@Vik470]

Minister not businessman- but yeah the reporter wasn't ready for it 😀 Why is the reporter asking Qatari Minister to address the citizens of UK about their gas bill? Shouldn't they be asking their elected members in their Parliament? Its funny ...

[@ngabusiimane6969]

@@Vik470 only UK journalists could come up with questions like that. Would that mean that Qatari money is funding the Uk economy?

[@gilbertlanier8025]

This guy makes me wanna buy some oil from him

[@jeremyvanbriesies1940]

me too 😅😅😅

[@MRrZero]

lmao

[@FreePizza007]

I’m so convinced I’ll buy coal from him!

[@teshaleberta4825]

🤣🤣🤣 me too

[@abhishekabraham4107]

😂😂😂😂

[@royallen1711]

What a well educated and eloquent person!!

[@j.t.5876]

I love it how Qatar's Energy Minister is schooling this guy in pragmatic thinking about such matters. The interviewer seems baffled by this guy's eloquence and command of what he's saying, in English. Clearly, a highly educated and talented politician here. But more to the point, a different perspective is being offered, one that doesn't fit the cliche of Arab nations from the "metro elites."

[@arabesque7787]

Qatar is stil barbaric , corrupt and uncivilized country. No matter how soft they learn them to 🗣 speak.

[@nowisgodinyourlovelylife717]

Our democratic values are worth a toilet paper when we keep breading corrupt politicians and make believe democracy the way it is now function well

[@stelasabbagh7634]

"I am not a native english speaker..". hehe.. and he speaks better than the journalist. What a brilliant minister!!

[@aninda2457]

I have seen many British people in the UK speaking grammatically incorrect English. Interestingly, more Indians communicate in English officially than the British nowadays :)

[@BlueFire94]

Aninda stop the 🧢

[@mambelelembambe4255]

Why is it that when the West suffers economically, other countries should help? When people in the 3rd world cannot afford Western goods, it is their fault.

[@claesmansson9070]

Because when west suffers (dont think we suffer yet),but then other developing countries suffers 10 times? more,Shri Lanka,Pakistan,Brazil,Turkey,China and more coming.

[@markhirstwood4190]

Because of Western hypocrisy. Canada and America are lawless, totally corrupt, industrial penal colonies. Poor and criminals flooded in here, multiplied, passed on their lies and tricks from generation to generation and gradually took over to the point where evil seems totally normal here and is an accepted way of life, permeating the culture from top to bottom. It mosty ruined things for the many (fewer now) good people in the West. Maybe it can be fixed, but maybe not before Russia nukes us. Russia will probably win.

[@Klopp2543]

@@claesmansson9070 what goes around comes around. The west has lived out of the rest of the world through it's dominance in the financial system,arms,loot etc etc Till when?

[@claesmansson9070]

So has the east earlier,

[@untitled2235]

@@claesmansson9070 I dont think the southeast asian countries are suffering, all they had to do to relocate their deals with russia and abandon west

[@realitytube6290]

UK asking for help from Qatar speaks volumes.

[@ZumaRoc]

"Help the UK right". What a condencending way to start an interview. Your self inflacted problem can not be everyone problem.

[@vincentsebina7182]

Then the next day they will be sanctioning Qatar and confiscating their assets.

[@andrewondon]

Indian minister said once - uk's problem is the world's problem but the world's problem is not uk's problem

[@ZumaRoc]

@@andrewondon lol! OMG 😲. For years the same media tagged Indian, "world poorest". Now, Indian is the best democracy in the world. Nobody is fooled anymore.

[@davidpaterson2309]

No self interest in this, of course. Next up, France complains that medical advice to limit saturated fat intake is a conspiracy to “demonise cheese”.

[@untitled2235]

This year is so humiliating for the west hegemony.

[@ddraigairhead4187]

Couldn’t say it better

[@abolajibayo4358]

Well said by the Minister. We can't outrightly do away with fossil fuels which is part of our daily lives and activities.

[@jimjiminy5836]

And that’s why we will become extinct.

[@Jake-rs9nq]

We'll have to adapt or face collapse when they become too scarce.

[@robertwilson214]

Oils the most.... profitable.

[@MK-ix1wv]

I mean I'm sure half the cost of gas and fuel is taxation, so we shouldn't really be blaming other countiees

[@dianewalker9154]

The UK, like many other countries, haven’t been investing in their infrastructure. It always takes a crisis for budgets to be reallocated. Covid caused relocation to NHS and PPE and vaccines. Now the energy crisis will reallocate funds back over to energy and energy infrastructure needs. Many EU countries were underspending on military security. Now the Ukraine war has caused budget reallocations back towards updating and increasing military security spending. It always takes a crisis.

[@pompey333]

Well read through history and tell me if that doesn't sound like most of human history.

[@Joekd6.1]

CLADDING crisis is next

[@nigel485]

Lmao don't even talk about UK infrastructure. It took 2 builders like 6 months to build a mini roundabout in my street and about 9 years to plan and build a new shopping centre..... Useless country

[@sinjinsmythe1571]

@@nigel485 what town/city..?

[@nigel485]

@@sinjinsmythe1571 Belfast, Northern Ireland.

[@beverlyhills7883]

A true diplomat. Very classy, polished & dispassionate, a rare thing to see.

[@roc7880]

he looks like all the guys from Middle East I worked with in the past, very well behaved and respectful.

[@stephenhosmer9444]

This intelligent and very polite Qatari Minister speaks much better ENGLISH than a good half of the people in the U.K. Congratulations to him and his teachers.

[@skp8748]

I don't know a single US or British diplomat with a comparable command of the Arabic language. Understand and using a different language is essential to gaining insight into thought patterns, philosophy and values of a different people.

[@anthonyuremeh8923]

When I said people should accept the fact that fossil fuels would be with us for the foreseeable future, this guy just confirmed that fact!!

[@steveparker8065]

So pointing out the evil of oil companies makes them extort us even more and that's on us? That's like a serial killer blaming their victims...

[@cherryfressh6188]

Biden and co are doing the extortion now, very obviously.

[@antoniopedropinheiro1388]

Spot on!

[@honeybunch5765]

Well said.

[@SB-lp7yj]

Do without them, and enjoy the 1700s. Good luck.

[@Errr717]

@@SB-lp7yj Right on!

[@rosswyeno]

West Texas Intermediate oil prices went negative in April 2020. That’s why oil and gas companies stopped investing.

[@wmf1595]

True. But not the full story. They went negative because of two main reasons. The pandemic and reduce demand, and 2, a raging oversupply because Saudi Arabia and Russia played a game of Chicken - with both countries producing as much as they could, and refusing to back off. Finally Russia your back down and that alleviated.

[@robinjones195]

Seemed like a good bloke, didn’t he? If only we had ministers like that.

[@mfitzy100]

Absolutely- nuts doing everything to deinsentivise Oil when the affordable alternatives aren’t there yet.

[@scrumtious1]

Let's hear your solutions to developing affordable alternatives without actually investing in them.

[@mfitzy100]

@@scrumtious1 where did I mention about “not investing” in them? No where

[@mand1009]

Yes sanctions are good, it improve the price of oil and gas and more commodities prices. Why ask for help, when it is self-inflicted, and worse fools following in the footsteps that fuse misery in their people. QATAR is smart and intelligent so solve your own self-inflicted wound.

[@stevengruber57]

It's amazing that in the UK we'd assume that middle eastern governments would be less sophisticated than ours - this guy alone is better than anything we've got. Ours don't know what's going on, and don't care about the detail.

[@skp8748]

Adel Al Jubeir and Reem bint Bandar are some of my favourites

[@SAM-oy9nc]

The policies in democracies are shortshighted because of the short-term frequent elections, so the politicians tend to enhear the voters what they want to hear rather than what they need to. And energy policy is not an exception.

[@nickiseb8910]

what about the planet and climatic changes ?

[@SAM-oy9nc]

@@nickiseb8910 When those politicians could make sane decisions about local markets they probably will be able to deal with problem that is much complex and require much forsightedness as climate change..

[@wonigu]

​@Nemusis 999 we definitely need more slaves

[@nsm6526]

Outright democracy is a dellusion

[@j.t.5876]

I think that is a fair point.

[@omourali5406]

UK should be grateful for Qatar for them investing in the UK even though after they moaning and demonising oil producers like Qatar. Stop this hypocrisy especially those who are in power doing all this legislative work.

[@omourali5406]

@Bercilak de hautdesert they can choose to invest elsewhere, which own British company like BP and Shell are doing. Investing in Africa and Asia because they are not 100% sure what the UK wants. Just like UK oil and Gas, which was blocked by Surrey council for productions, now they decided to focus and invest in Turkey instead of UK. So yes Qatar don't have to invest in the UK as they are already super oil rich country. But now they doing it probably for them to allay with the UK so to they can have security as they getting more pressure elsewhere such as Saudi Arabia.

[@ehisgeorge414]

Good guy saying the truth.

[@rogerbarrett8744]

"the sun does not shine all the time" those damn teachers, they lied to me when they said the earth went round the sun. It's flat isn't it, I knew it.

[@claesmansson9070]

Yes it does,sun have shined for billions of years,and will continue some billions more.

[@claesmansson9070]

Yes it does,sun have shined for billions of years,and will continue some billions more.

[@rogerbarrett8744]

@@claesmansson9070 It's a joke!

[@komplexkoncepts2896]

@@rogerbarrett8744 he a slow thinker

[@wuhanvirus4277]

@@ZAK-89 Because there are sanctions to keep sun shining all the time: The clouds, storm with lightening are the sanction that he is talking about..😁

[@Kevin-gn7cb]

well said and explained

[@petervince167]

A truly spirited diplomat.

[@uk6523]

Why we are not getting summer this year yet ?

[@khaledalmarei2388]

Impressive interview 👍🏼

[@yb3547]

Payback time

[@ymalik9813]

9% inflation later this year and much higher interest rates we are heading for a crash much worse then 2008

[@StealthTulip]

Amazing interview…👍

[@holdenrodgers5573]

Smart guy

[@aali4276]

And yet the energy companies charging consumers extortionate prices

[@neosneidis4885]

The IOG terminal is not in the west side, but in east side. He made a mistake. Milforhaven is in west side. Just only for your information.

[@RR-fk7xc]

the cheek of this man! made a dig at british weather saying it doesnt shine here all the time :D :D :D

[@dianewalker9154]

Energy companies haven’t been confident that oil and gas will continue to be acceptable so deferred capital investment. But renewables aren’t as efficient and will not fully replace oil and gas in its entirety. Governments touting renewables as their only answer are foolish and have brought this crisis upon themselves.

[@VincitOmniaVeritas7]

Agreed. Besides, we should follow France’s example and invest in nuclear power.

[@scrumtious1]

Where's your proof of renewables aren't as efficient? What, in your opinion, is stopping them from being able to fully replace oil and gas?

[@franzjoseph1837]

@@scrumtious1 he has none just more uninformed ramblings renewables are cheaper than all fossil fuels this Qatari official is mad that Qatars main export natural gas is going the way of the dinosaur and Qatar has no plan to diversify their economy. Renewables just need new tech that can connect them to power grids more effectively and we can abandon fossil fuels that make more rejected energy then renewables,are leading us towards ecological collapse, and are the basis for the power of small cobal of billionares who destroy democracies around the world for more profit.

[@brainsandbeauty2832]

@@scrumtious1 the current crisis?

[@pStar58]

Makes me furious . Why can’t our government think like that and be energy independent not selling off to every other country, why can’t we invest in our supply training generations of professionals along the way why is every infrastructure just sold off to other countries, it should be the other way round . scrap the whole parliament we need fresh minds

[@SAM-oy9nc]

Because they won't be elected in the first place, investment requires money, that means more taxes and higher energy prices in the short run to stabilize it in the long run, specially in hard times like now..

[@kimwarburton8490]

Tories sold off our nationalised north sea oil n gas n storage So we have to buy at international market rates and cannot even bulk buy

[@kama3422]

In the end, the government who create the problem in the first place, don't even suffer. Its us, the consumer that has to suffer.

[@Belisarius527AD]

Energy minister of a gulf state that export oil and gas is telling us that we should buy more oil hmmm

[@enghockonn8028]

Economic sanction is a double edged sword it cuts both way

[@somayyamughal8313]

Valid point

[@johncrasto1195]

The H E minister well spoken n future investment is required more strength as new technologies are approaching n future growth n taping new resources .

[@Somalidhalad1]

Qamars Always been highly intelligent 👌 respect and love from somalia 🇸🇴

[@johnnypatterson7512]

Mmmmmm no the oil companies do that just fine on their own.

[@paulgregory4102]

Just wait till net zero kicks in

[@basit9114]

The Qatari minister re-defines 'I will' as having a plan and strategy in place, and correctly so. Our ministers in the UK need to take lessons.

[@SuperMyckie]

There are actually intelligent people.. good talk minister

[@muhammedsuhail5472]

The minister brought his A game. But what would be the cost component of gas transition . The reporter should have asked...

[@kiswindsidaguigma9261]

African countries that produce fossil energy must take example on the Golf countries leaders. They are investing the fossil energy money on educating their people.

[@Arsenal-81]

well the prices aren't coming down anytime soon

[@proudlyafrican6240]

Very well said, Minister!

[@pharroekemet529]

Europe is crying during Summer. Let See what Happen In the Winter. Russia is the cheapeast and the most efficient Energy Supplier for Europe. Just stop expanding Nato in Eastern Europe Countries. Thats it.

[@larrypage7753]

one of the most intelligent people. great asset to his country ,,people like these is what the world needs .not like our African ministers

[@ruthjilani4760]

Better than any American or eurooean leader. He is clear and factual and noexploytation

[@marc0110j]

African ministers? The are plenty of clueless fools in governments outside of Africa. I agree, it is refreshing to listen to an intelligent and articulate person instead of the usual partisan hacks and professional windbags.

[@larrypage7753]

@@marc0110j spot on👍

[@bulbulnyanpetpet7710]

God bless Arabia the smarty human being on earth

[@jaamacdagaale5145]

remove senctions from Venezuela Rushia Iran and we will enjoy cheap energy

[@ciybersal9833]

West loves to hurt everyone and its own citizens

[@michaelgreen1515]

I have the frequency to hear the dogwhistle and it says: "Syria Syria Syria Syria"!

[@omzzsulu8547]

Exactly, all that isis crap was all a front America just wanted pipelines through Syria thus isis

[@watef3]

And....BBC sabotaged it with Lineker.

[@hmikey5680]

Extinction rebellions need to watch this interview..

[@KJO13]

Oil future is in trouble so oil giant countries are trying to make maximum while they can. Same old wine in a different bottle, not even a new bottle!!!

[@titteryenot4524]

# What's the difference between Qatar and Abu Dhabi? # People in Qatar don't watch The Flintstones, but the people in Abu Dhabi do.

[@dirtsydebehindthescene8248]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3vWlWimpaZjZ7c This Is A Really Enjoyable Video 🙏🤩❤️

[@sergueimikhail9654]

What is the difference between US and UK? None. both are psychiatric hospitals with patients in charge.

[@akon360]

What does this mean. I don’t get it.

[@titteryenot4524]

@@akon360 Fred Flintstone’s catchphrase is ‘yabba dabba doo’; play on words with Abu Dhabi do.

[@vanshookme6531]

excellent I will use that thanks Don don

[@TheRealMrLaserCutter]

Our excessive energy use is the bad guy.

[@envensa]

This man is a tru gentleman!

[@pierrejjboisvert5860]

Ne te fie pas a son discours

[@wmf1595]

The man is evil, parading as a moderate

[@aghileshemdani3144]

@@pierrejjboisvert5860 ..mdrr un français qui dit ça c est funny. .

[@JmeHayGreenz]

Nationalise the energy companies!!

[@iampdv]

Worked so nicely in one huge country in the north... Can't remember it's name... Starts with R I guess?

[@chadgaston8615]

Aren't most of them owned by banks, hedge funds and insurance companies anyway. Qatari government owns its energy companies.

[@UrielX1212]

So they can be run by impotent countries and their useless politicans?

[@TMM-N]

@@iampdv u mean venezuela? russia gazprom has one of the best oil and gas company. so shut your mouth

[@iampdv]

@Coma White Using Australia as a good example of anything in 2022 is strange... Also, read about the power of examples and counterexamples in logic...

[@AlphaDogLXIII]

so can anyone say the same with nuclear power.

[@aliwhallak]

🇶🇦 respect!

[@johnmurray1123]

destroying our energy before building our new future energy, was many times warned ,but most though they new best ?. did they?.

[@syedmaricar9946]

Small country big player's in the world.

[@HardcorePanda]

minister says safest country in the world for the workers 😆🤣😂

[@pierrejjboisvert5860]

Le Qatar nest qu'un microbe pathogène et exploiteur ; les nouvelles se rendent ici en Amérique personne n'est dupe

[@MubarakSultan]

Yes it’s

[@MrGengad]

Yes it is, and provides work to Indian and far east. Qatar is really special country and it is very rich.

[@5071507]

Well because it is

[@aghileshemdani3144]

Well of course it IS except for cow worshiper...

[@abdulmoizhashmi]

He certainly could do a better job running the UK cabinet alone, given all of the shenanigans and mismanagement we see lately on part of the UK government. When can the UK get people of such calibre to lead us out of this circus we have been thrown into lately .....

[@j.m3442]

Thank to Allah

[@shakebraza196]

He said it right.

[@jbh2761]

Hmmm the cost of energy didn’t go up prior the war but it could be definitely felt once the war began .. I understand what the minister is saying but some things don’t add up …

[@muhammadm4582]

now they are begging to Qatar

[@KingdomExplorationLLC]

Why is America the most un-informed when it comes to oil? OPEC is laughing at us!

[@nebojsa1976]

OPEC??? No man, not OPEC, but every person in the world is laughing at USA.

[@Spitfire_Cowboy]

Feb 22 2022 - Qatar's Emir receives letter from Russia's Putin stressing bilateral relations Hmmm... one wonders...

[@lee9650]

No, it is the consequence of incompetent and bad governance.

[@samtour8545]

Why not get more energy from your green renewables😂😂😂

[@JemHadar422]

I agree with him.

[@thelostson6275]

That's a smart man

[@martinsiziba8812]

Intelligent analysis of facts not obvious to everyone. Some of these problems could be more deliberate and the Ukrainian war may be just a scapegoat to cover the deliberate actions behind the scenes.

[@Aden288]

Check out Russel Brand's overview on why the Russian invasion of Ukraine happened. Very underhand politics at play by the West.

[@rchatte100]

He's right, the eco-nut net zero is crazy!

[@dandare2586]

Lets work it out shall we: The Crown Estate is due to make £9 billion over 10 years from just renting out the seabed it owns for windfarms. The Queen negotiated a direct 25% cut of that for herself from George Osborne in 2012. So before a windfarm is even built it is costing the electricity bill payer £9 billion for just seabed rental, who knows how much building the actual windturbines & associated infrastructure is going to cost on top of that......That is why electricitybills are going through the roof.

[@soviet9366]

Does he realise he lives on the equator and thats going to be an increasingly bad spot to be as global warming progresses?

[@Jad490]

As an architect to who works there let me tell say you’d be surprised how many strategies are made for various global warming scenarios

[@marcelloporto4728]

Absolutely on the dot…must be humiliating for those dreamer countries and individuals advocating plan (0) only for political gain…starting with Brussels and the list downwards….

[@markhirstwood4190]

I don't think it's 'Ca-TAR', I think it's said more like in between 'Cutter' and 'Gutter'. The host starts off a bit aggressive, trying to interupt the guest. I had to stop watching as I felt bad energy from that.

[@SiHadlington]

correct

[@TheJosephPrice]

On the contrary, more reasons why they are terrible.

[@deanrsnc5385]

Well if they dont help the majora then the majors wont hwlp them later on.

[@marcobartz1879]

Looking forward to the transition away from oil

[@honeybunch5765]

What they are not wealthy enough, now they are coming with another angle to sell oil and gas for even higher prices?

[@vg9137]

Honeybunch *👈no the shaper tool in the box.*

[@whytespacing]

Hey... Capitalism is supply and demand what's the problem? Good for the Goose Good for the Gander! Let the invisible hand of the Market resolve all?

[@nieskeolinga4556]

A good diplomat 👏👏👏

[@nenadperisic9915]

Why would Katar help UK? 😂

[@mudshovel289]

Because they’re being paid

[@MrLaking123]

so basically there punishing us for wanting to go green pathetic he don't look like he is struggling

[@karthigeyan143]

Wonderful minister and nice speech

[@kimwarburton8490]

I disagree, its not that we divested from fossil fuels too fast, its that we didnt take advantage of renewable tech fast enough to replace, let alone to be ahead of the curve like norway is with renewables and EVs

[@joshuap9580]

why allow ourselves to be held hostage by OPEC? we're all happy with the arrangement until a challenging situation erupts, and then we realize we're beholden to a very small group that sets the prices that fuel our societys.

[@paulbadics3500]

Norway??..its economy & finances more dependent on Oil exports than any other country

[@danielwoldu1855]

Climate climate climate given the reason but planting more trees and more investment on oil and gas

[@mikeydapikey]

Record 🌡 in quatar.. your feeling it more !

[@terryvarta9306]

its time to move to clean energy so these countries can pay the price of their greed

[@khaya7272]

Clean energy doesn’t provide sufficient base load.

[@RazorMouth]

@@khaya7272 nuclear fusion?

[@UmbraWeiss]

@@khaya7272 There are a lot of money invested in a lot of renewable reaserch... Not just wind and solar, there are a lot more out there that works and is in test phase, it will take probably 5-10years for something to take off from there the biggest challenge is infrastructure.

[@vg9137]

@@RazorMouth *The West criticize, condemn, boycott put sanctions and more sanctions and do the blah blah blah... BUT never comes up with SOLUTIONS.*

[@RazorMouth]

@@vg9137 😂😂😂😂 thanks for that horsesh1t