Qatar: Efficiency drive reaches top of QP
Issue 977
- 19 Sep 2014
| 1 minute read
The appointment of Saad Al-Kaabi as Qatar Petroleum (QP) managing director may prove a significant step in helping Qatar to confront serious challenges in its energy sector, which range from declining crude output, disappointments over deep gas (pre-Khuff) exploration, and delays in the Barzan offshore gas development to increasing competition in the global gas market. Al-Kaabi is expected to tackle inefficiencies across the sector, in part a legacy of the more freewheeling way of doing things that once suited the ambitious emirate.
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