A Penn State Engineer's Quest to Become the World's Gas King
- Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi named Qatar’s minister of energy affairs
- Qatar is the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas
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It’s the opposite of a meteoric rise.
Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi was a teenager when he joined Qatar Petroleum in 1986, still an engineering student at Pennsylvania State University. He climbed slowly through the ranks, finally becoming chief executive officer in 2014 and managing projects that cemented Qatar’s role as the world’s top exporter of liquefied natural gas.