Recently, with the arrival of cold winter in the northern hemisphere, energy demand around the world has also begun to grow. Although the natural gas purchased in Europe this year is barely enough, as overall demand increases, the energy crisis has not been resolved.
. Just as Europe was still running around purchasing natural gas, China and Qatar suddenly signed a 27-year natural gas supply agreement. This made Europeans no longer sit still and began to complain that the buyer market for may become more intense in the coming year.
Just on November 25, a reporter from German media "Focus" magazine asked the German Chancellor Scholtz in an interview, that is, why Germany failed to sign a long-term natural gas supply agreement with Qatar like China.
Faced with this sharp problem, Scholz gave an evasive reply, that is, he believes that the reporter's statement is wrong. German companies are actually promoting relevant negotiations carefully and seriously, but Scholz did not give more answers to the details and progress of the negotiations.
The Germans are obviously dissatisfied with Scholz's statement. Although Qatar's natural gas has 17.77 billion tons of proven reserves , it is the world's largest natural gas exporter, but after all, it is affected by mining and supply and demand capabilities, whoever comes first receives first. Seeing that the agreement between China and Qatar has fallen into the pen and entered the execution stage, this is obviously behind Germany, which is facing an energy crisis due to abandoning Russian natural gas.
So after the interview, the German media expressed the feeling that as China and other bulk energy markets began to purchase energy through long-term agreements, it became even more difficult for Europe to find "gas". Qatar can use these price-to-volume transactions to put pressure on European consumers, which squeezes the space Europe can manipulate.
German media's premonition is undoubtedly correct, and the energy market does not have many opportunities left to Europe. However, the reason for this is not because of competition and rush to buy from other importing countries such as China, but because Europe refuses long-term contract supply due to its own problems and repeatedly changes contracts, which makes it contrary to the interests of various energy exporters, resulting in a stalemate in the agreement.
For exporting countries of bulk energy commodities such as Qatar, natural gas as a hard currency and the future trend of clean energy will not worry about not being able to sell it, but what is important is the long-term stability of the customer market.
However, since the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict, whether it is forcibly cutting off energy relations with Russia due to the ideology , or implementing a policy of relying on the United States, the world has seen its irrational, unstable and weak side. In addition, it is often picky about energy contract negotiations and always prioritizes its own interests. Obviously, such a Europe is greatly discounted in the minds of various resource countries.
In contrast, East Asia, which has a larger population, a larger market, stronger demand, more rational politics and a more stable situation, has obviously become a new growth point for the world economy of . In addition, the focus of the world's political focus is shifting from the west to the east, a multipolar world pattern is forming, and energy export competition among peers such as Australia, Russia, and Iran determine that energy countries such as the Gulf must give priority to Asian customers, especially the Chinese market.
On the one hand, it is Europe, which dares to take ruthless measures against Russia, which has supplied gas for 50 years, and on the other hand, China, which has directly signed a 27-year long-term agreement contract, is the reality that it is a reliable partner of the energy country.
