VOL. XLIV

No 38

17-September-2001

QATAR

Amiri Decree Establishes Ras Laffan Electricity Company

The Amir of Qatar, Shaikh Hamad binKhalifa Al Thani, on 5 September issued a decree to establish the Ras LaffanElectricity Company. Last May AES of the US announced that it had been awardeda contract to build and operate Qatars first independent power/water projectat Ras Laffan (MEES, 4 June). Thenatural gas-fired, combined cycle cogeneration plant will produce 430mw ofelectricity from mid-2003, rising...