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Gulf Energy

Hydrocarbon revenue is the Gulf's funding line, not its ambition. We track what the barrel and the cargo are being converted into, and who is contracted to buy them.

North Field
Qatar's LNG expansion and its offtake contracts
Aramco
Earnings, dividend policy and downstream spend
ADNOC
Ruwais LNG and the move into trading

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31 Aug 2026

The Gulf Stopped Selling Barrels, It Started Selling Certainty

Aramco earned $104.7 billion in 2025 and Abu Dhabi built an LNG trading business. What Gulf hydrocarbon revenue is being converted into, and who is contracted to buy the molecules.

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