Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 42

17-October-2005

QATAR

UDC Qatar Aluminum Smelter Plans Abandoned

While United Development Companys (UDC) planned aluminum smelter has long thought to have been superseded by the proposed Qatar Petroleum-Norsk Hydro Qatalum facility, MEES learns definitively that the project has now been abandoned. UDC was unavailable for comment. Privately-owned UDC, which invests in long-term projects and is better known as the promoter and developer of the UAEs Pearl...