Russia’s invasion of Ukraine created a global energy crisis and an opportunity for the United States to assert itself as the world’s “energy superpower,” maintains Charif Souki, “the godfather of LNG” who a decade ago spearheaded the American drive to become the global leader in liquified natural gas production.
“The fundamental thing that has happened, that has not yet been absorbed in the United States, not by the political circles or by general consensus, is that we are now an energy superpower,” he said. “You can argue, maybe, ‘the’ energy superpower.”
Born in Egypt and raised in Lebanon, Souki is a former Wall Street banker, restaurateur, and CEO of Cheniere Energy, which is among the “big three” LNG producers that capitalized on the “fracking revolution” that in a decade turned the United States, the world’s largest importer of hydrocarbons, into its biggest exporter….