The UAE opens its annual oil-and-gas summit, pledging to increase output even as prices have fallen

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The UAE opens its annual oil-and-gas summit, pledging to increase output even as prices have fallen

ABU DHABI, ******* ***** Emirates (AP) — The ******* ***** Emirates opened its annual oil-and-gas summit on Monday with pledges to increase energy output even as global prices have fallen and

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ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

The massive Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference comes after the UAE just last year hosted the ******* Nations COP28 climate talks. Those talks ended with

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— the first time the conference made that crucial pledge.

But the UAE as a whole still plans to increase its production of oil to 5 million barrels a day in the coming years as it pursues more cleaner energies at home. Meanwhile, UAE officials have made a point to dodge any questions about the U.S. election while maintaining their close

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“Allow me to say that we in the ******* ***** Emirates will always choose partnership over polarization, dialogue over division and peace over provocation,” said Sultan al-Jaber, who heads the state-run Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and who also led the COP28 talks in Dubai.

Crude oil prices have been depressed this year. Benchmark Brent crude traded around $74 a barrel on Monday as prices have dropped after concerns over the

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faded in recent days.

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and ample supply in the market are additionally dragging down prices.

In his speech opening the summit, al-Jaber pointed to artificial intelligence as a future technology that could be deployed by the energy industry — and one with a voracious appetite for electricity.

“No single source of energy is going to be enough to meet this demand,” he said.

Politics was also close at hand at the summit on Monday. Whispers among the crowd attending the opening pondered who would be better for their businesses,

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Suhail al-Mazrouei, the Emirates’ minister of energy and infrastructure, dodged the first question by a presenter over whether his country preferred Trump or Harris.

“Of course, we will be discussing energy politics here and I (would) rather not … talk about the election in the ******* States,” al-Mazrouei said. “As a political contest, we wish both candidates the best.”

The UAE maintains close ties to Russia despite Western sanctions over Moscow’s war. An announcer told the crowd where to find Russian translation for the event, while one of the main partners of the summit was Lukoil, Russia’s largest non-state oil firm.

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