QATAR

Qatar Initials Design Contract with Bechtel for North Gas Field 

The Deputy Managing Director of the Qatar General Petroleum Corporation (QGPC), Shaikh Rashid 'Uwaidah Al Thani, disclosed in a newspaper interview on 7 August that QGPC has initialed a $1.1mn contract with Bechtel of the US for the drawing up of the basic engineering designs for the first phase of the development of Qatar's North field gas project. Shaikh Rashid did not indicate when the contract is to be...