Germany’s Wintershall is stopping its activities in Qatar. The upstream subsidiary of BASF, which in 2013 made Qatar’s first new gas discovery in over 40 years, announced it would return Block 4 North on 25 May, because of Qatar’s refusal to give it access to the local infrastructure it would need to make development of the new field economically viable. In a 20 May statement, Wintershall – Germany’s largest oil and gas producer, which had already relinquished licences to two other Qatari blocks – said its office in Doha would be closed; its regional focus will turn to the UAE.
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