Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 41

11-Oct-2010

Qatar Goes For Carbon Capture And Storage

Potential boost to output from swing producer al-Shaheen oil field.

Qatar has become the fourth MENA country to study or use carbon capture and storage (CCS), MEES learns. Maersk is analyzing injecting waste CO2 from onshore LNG and gas-to-liquids (GTL) plants into the offshore al-Shaheen field Qatars key crude producer which the Danish independent operates.

If it goes ahead with CCS, Maersk...