Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 20

17-May-2010

MEES Agenda

QP Abandons Planned Al-Shaheen Refinery Project

State-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP) has postponed indefinitely its planned 250,000 b/d capacity al-Shaheen refinery project, Qatari Minister of Energy and Industry ʹAbd Allah al-ʹAttiyah told reporters in Doha on 11 May. QP is instead concentrating on doubling throughput capacity at the 146,000 b/d Ras Laffan condensate refinery, which started up last September.

Al-Shaheen has been...