His Excellency Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi is the Minister of State for Energy Affairs and Cabinet member of the State of Qatar. H.E. also holds the position of Deputy Chairman and President and CEO of QatarEnergy.

H.E. Al-Kaabi joined QatarEnergy in 1986 as a student studying Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering at Pennsylvania State University in the USA. He graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering.

H.E. Al-Kaabi held several key technical, commercial, and managerial positions in QatarEnergy before being appointed as the Director of Oil & Gas Ventures in 2006, where he oversaw the development of Qatar’s North Field, and development of oil fields and all exploration activities. His Excellency was appointed President and CEO of QatarEnergy in 2014, and Minister of State for Energy Affairs in 2018.

His Excellency has dedicated his entire career to developing Qatar’s natural gas resources; promoting natural gas as the cornerstone of global energy transition and transforming Qatar into an international energy powerhouse.

Under his leadership, QatarEnergy began implementing a series of strategic mega projects that would more than double the State of Qatar’s LNG production (to 160 million tons per annum) and would more than double the petrochemicals production (to 5.3 million tons per annum), including the development of two world scale petrochemical complexes. His Excellency also oversaw the largest shipbuilding program in the history of the LNG shipping industry totalling 128 ultramodern vessels, as well as a mega project that would double Qatar’s fertilizer production to 12 million tons per annum, making it the largest fertilizer producer in the world.

As part of his efforts to help achieve the State of Qatar’s objective of balancing economic and social development with environmental protection, His Excellency Al-Kaabi leads the efforts to build the world’s largest blue ammonia plant, with 1.2 million tons per annum capacity, and the construction of four solar power plants that would generate more than 4,000 megawatts of renewable energy by 2030, helping meet 30% of Qatar’s peak electricity demand.