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On the back of developing political and economic relations between Qatar and Turkey, the LNG-rich Gulf state has been a growing market for Turkish contractors since 2014, an official of a Turkish consultancy firm has said. Citing data by Engineering News Record, Cigdem Ulug Kutlu, partner Shedu Consulting & International …

A Qatari company hopes to use the country’s abundant gas reserves to make protein for fish food and other animal feeds. Gulf Biotech, the Doha-based industrial biotech investor, and Unibio have signed a license agreement to produce sustainable and organic protein in Qatar. “The abundance of natural gas in Qatar …

Qatar Petroleum said on March 30 it would take full ownership of its Qatargas 1 LNG plant when its 25-year contract with international investors including Exxon Mobil Corp. and Total SE expires next year. The decision not to extend the contracts for the country’s first-ever LNG processing plan came as …

Qatar Petroleum, the world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) producer, is cranking up the pressure on high-cost rivals with bold expansion plans that will boost supplies over the coming decade and potentially push prices down further. As competitors struggle to break even due to lower prices, the Qatari firm last …

The world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, Qatar, has long occupied a political position in the Middle East that has neither been decisively aligned with the U.S.-Israel-Saudi axis of power nor with the Iran-China-Russia one. More recently, though, there appears to have been a move further away from the …

Qatar Petroleum on March 3 loaded about 712,000 barrels of condensate destined for the Emirates National Oil Co. in the UAE, the first commercial energy trade since the end of the Gulf blockade in early January, according to data analytics firm Kpler. Qatar Petroleum shipped the condensate from Ras Laffan …

Qatar aims to be the world’s biggest producer of liquefied natural gas for at least the next two decades, capitalising on rising demand as the world transitions from oil and coal to cleaner energy. Qatar will spend billions of dollars expanding its LNG capacity more than 50% to 126mn tonnes …

Qatar’s move to sanction the $28.7bn North Field Expansion project puts the country on track to return as the world’s largest LNG producer by 2030, the Oslo, Norway-based Rystad Energy has said in a report. Qatar’s liquefaction capacity will rise to 110mn tonnes per year (tpy), or 18% of the …

Qatar Petroleum took this week the final investment decision to build what it says would be the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in terms of capacity, as the tiny Gulf nation and top global LNG exporter aims to raise its annual production by 40 percent by the end …

Qatar Petroleum selected Chiyoda Corp. and TechnipFMC Plc for the main construction contract to expand its liquefied natural gas production capacity by 43%. Qatar’s energy minister and QP Chief Executive Officer Saad Al-Kaabi signed the agreement, worth about $13 billion, with the two companies at a ceremony in Doha on …