Qatar | Egypt Oil & Gas - Part 21
McDermott Wins Brownfield Qatar Offshore Gas Project
McDermott International has been awarded a large project for a new jacket, temporary deck and replacement umbilical by Qatar Petroleum for the North Field Alpha gas development, offshore Qatar. The brownfield contract...
Iran Preparing for South Pars Oil Production
Iran is set to produce oil from the South Pars mega field within the next couple of years, say officials. The head of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Rokneddin Javadi told IRNA on Wednesday that the country has a...
Shell’s Qatar Plant for 2-Month ‘Turnaround’ Maintenance
Royal Dutch Shell has entered planned maintenance in February 2015 at the Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant, in Qatar. Pearl GTL comprises two identical GTL ‘trains’, with a total capacity of 140,000 b/d of GTL product...
Oil Price Slump Hits Qatar Investment House
A proposal by Qatar’s Investment House for a 750 million riyal (Dh734 million) flotation of an agricultural firm has been shelved by regulators, while investment in Qatar is slowing generally because of weak oil price...
Qatar: Gulf States Yet to Diversify from Oil
Rich Gulf Arab countries have so far failed to diversify their economies away from oil revenue and some may eventually face political challenges as a result, a senior Qatar central bank official said on Tuesday. The c...
ProSep Osorb Media Technology for Qatar and Oman
Houston-headquartered ProSep, the oil, gas and water treatment specialist, has launched an Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) joint industry project (JIP) with Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Petroleum Development Oman (P...
Qatar Ironing Out 15-Year LNG Deal with Pakistan
State-run Qatargas is in the final stages of talks on a deal to supply Pakistan with 3 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas annually for 15 years, industry sources in Doha told Reuters on Wednesday. “The deal...
Oil Prices Responsible for Cancelled Gulf Projects, Layoffs
Projects worth around $200 billion (Dh734.47 billion) were cancelled globally in the last three months due to falling oil prices, an oil and gas expert told Gulf News. Christophe de Mahieu, a partner in Dubai-based Ba...
