VOL. XLII

No. 10

8-March-1999

QATAR

QAFAC To Go On Stream In June

The Qatar Fuel Additives Company (QAFAC) will startoperating in June, according to Qatar痴 Minister of Energy and Industry 羨bdAllah al-羨ttiyah, who is also the chairman of QAFAC. The petrochemical jointventure will begin methanol production on 1 June and MTBE production on 1 July.Work on the plant is 98% complete and pre-commissioning tests began on 3 March.It has a design capacity for 850,000 tons/year of methanol and 620,000 t/y of...