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			<title>Qatar eyes $9.8bn petro investment in Asia</title>
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			<title>Power play</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatar has sets its sights on the bulging middle distillates market. But can it match the muscle of export giants China & India?]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar eyes China as big new LNG volumes come online</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[World's biggest LNG exporter set to double production capacity this year.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf to play key role in future global finance - official</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatar Petroleum chief says Islamic finance will be at forefront of recovery.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar to hit 5m boepd daily by 2014 - oil official</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Figures assume planned energy expansion projects are completed on time.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar's RasGas says Train 6 starts LNG output</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[New train capable of producing 7.8m tonnes of LNG (liquified natural gas) annually.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar Petroleum set to invite bids for Al-Shaheen project</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Senior official says that tender bids will be invited in Oct and contracts awarded in March.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar's $2.6bn Energy City sees tenants in 2010</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Infrastructure 70% complete, 25 to 50% of construction contracts awarded by end-2009.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar oil minister urges price caution</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Minister says still too early for exporters to be optimistic, despite recent oil price rise on world markets.]]></description>
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			<title>Construction starts on Qatar's largest water, power plant</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Plant will provide 30% of Qatar's electricity needs and 20% of water needs by 2011.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar to cut Asian oil supplies in May - state company</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The 4% cut in heavy Marine crude will help the state comply with OPEC quota.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Offshore delivery of LNG to Dubai from Qatar due 2011</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Shell to build offshore terminal to pipe the liquefied natural gas to Dubai.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatargas LNG production facility set for late-2009</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatar energy official confirms start up for 5th liquefied natural gas production facility.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar Petroleum's staff pledge amid global crisis</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Some projects are postponed but energy giant says it is not planning to downsize.]]></description>
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			<title>Aluminium giant to open $7mn Qatar research centre</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hydro aims to use facility to help improve safety at plant in Gulf state.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar $2.6bn petrochemical project delayed</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and SKorea's Honam victim of credit crunch.]]></description>
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			<title>World's largest gas-to-liquids plant by end 2010</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Shell's Qatar boss sees long-term benefits in Pearl GTL, despite cost overruns.]]></description>
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			<title>Green light for Qatar power plant</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatar Petroleum has found financers for its US $3.32 billion (QAR12 billion) power and water plant in the industrial port of Ras Laffan, according to Qatar's state news agency QNA.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar closes $3.32bn Ras Laffan plant finance</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Project to provide water and 2,730Mw of electricity for Qatar's booming economy.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar starts LNG project for UK exports</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[World's top LNG exporter starts up delayed facility for British market.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar refinery delayed to '09</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatar's 146,000 barrel per day Ras Laffan refinery to come online next year, says oil minister.]]></description>
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			<title>Going global</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ConocoPhillips deal to send Qatar's gas to US markets marked a paradigm shift for marketing the region's LNG.  ]]></description>
			<category>Energy | Features</category>
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			<title>South Africa in market for Qatar gas</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Country 'very interested' in acquiring LNG from gas-rich Gulf state, Mbeki tells businessmen.]]></description>
			<category>Energy | News</category>
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			<title>Mideast oil majors rapped over transparency</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Lack of openness about revenues leaving door open to corruption and poverty, study finds.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar, Netherlands forge closer gas ties</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dutch companies to build LNG terminal in port of Rotterdam estimated to cost $1.25bn.]]></description>
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			<title>Skyrocketing costs threaten energy sector</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Estimated project costs up to 2011 soar 22% to $345bn, driven by material and labour. ]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar Petroleum IPO five-times oversubscribed</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Share sale for new holding company grouping three QP services firms.]]></description>
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			<title>Bon Café inks Qatar distribution deal</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Coffee supplier Bon Café Middle East signed a distribution agreement with Qatar Petroleum on day two of Gulfood 2008.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar energy plans 66% services firm IPO</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[State-owned energy company to make public offering for three companies in February.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Kyoto Protocol has created a market for carbon trading. Are the Gulf states ready to trade pollution? ]]></description>
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