Industries: liquefied natural gas, crude oil production and refining, ammonia, fertilizers, petrochemicals, steel reinforcing bars, cement, commercial ship repair. Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, fish. Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: , ; mobile cellular: 2. Radio broadcast stations: AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1 Radios: , Television broadcast stations: 1 Televisions: , Internet users: , Transportation: Railways: 0 km.
Highways: total: 9, km Airports: 6 Major sources and definitions. Saudi Arabia is to the west and the United Arab Emirates to the south. The country is mainly barren. Qatar was once controlled by the sheikhs of Bahrain, but in , war broke out between the people and their absentee rulers. To keep the peace in the Persian Gulf, the British installed Muhammad ibn Thani al-Thani, head of a leading Qatari family, as the region's ruler.
In , the Ottoman Turks made incursions into Qatar, but the emir successfully deflected them. In , the emir agreed to allow Qatar to become a British protectorate. Oil was discovered in the s, bringing wealth to the country in the s and s. Its people have one of the highest per capita incomes in the world. Langham, the well site geologist, unaware of these payzones discovered two years earlier, called the Zekrit limestones as No.
Zekrit Formation is named after the port of Zekrit, northeast of Dukhan, where a jetty had been built by the drilling team for unloading materials.
A view of Halul Island an area of 1. Today, the island is home to 11 large oil storage tanks with a total capacity of 5 million barrels; it also has pumping stations and modern loading terminals for tankers. In , oil exported from Halul was about 90 million barrels transported by tankers; operations are managed by the Qatar Marine Crude. Photo courtesy of Qatar Petroleum. In March , Dukhan No. It discovered oil in the No.
In May , Dukhan No. Indeed, Dukhan wells and installations were stripped or destroyed in ; therefore, after the war ended, the field needed reconstruction. Renewed operations began in late During the following three years, three drilling rigs were continuously employed to drill 25 wells. Meanwhile, a km pipeline was built from the Dukhan field to the port of Umm Said in eastern Qatar where terminal facilities also were put in place.
President Manny carried 80, tons of oil to Europe. Comparison of oil payzones in the onshore Dukhan field and the offshore Idd al-Sharqi North Dome field data after Frei, Illustration by Rasoul Sorkhabi By , Qatar was producing 33, bopd. The production increased threefold by Early production was from the Khatiyah sector.
Production from Fahahil began in and from Jaleha in In , Dukhan No. But many other wells continued producing oil from.
By , 58 wells had been drilled in the Dukhan, of which 48 wells were producers. In , production averaged about , bopd. The top of the Khuff formation lies at depths of m, and its thickness varies from m. Gas production from the Khuff commenced in In , the government of Qatar established the Qatar National Oil Company to manage its oil operations.
In , Qatar fully nationalized onshore and offshore operations and gave service contracts to the former concessionaries. In August , the new ruler of Qatar, Shaikh Ali ibn Abdullah al-Thani the elder son of the former Emir , gave a concession to the International Marine Oil Company a subsidiary of the Superior Oil Company and Investment Corporation to explore for oil offshore Qatar in waters beyond the 3-miles line ; but the company could not locate any suitable structure for drilling, and thus relinquished the concession in Qatar, in turn, granted a new offshore concession to Shell Overseas Exploration Company; the concession was transferred in to a new subsidiary called Shell Company of Qatar.
Shell started seismic survey in the Qatar waters in the spring of and drilled two exploratory wells in and ; both wells were dry. Qatar is an absolute monarchy ruled by an emir prince of the al-Thani family. A provisional constitution provides for a council of ministers and an advisory council appointed by the emir.
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Create a list. Save Back. State of Qatar. Grades 3—5 , 6—8 , 9— Map of Qatar. Grolier Interactive Inc. Head of state and government emir. Legislature —none Chief Products: Agricultural —Petroleum, natural gas, petrochemicals, wheat, vegetables, fruits. The People Less than a quarter of the people living in Qatar are native Qataris. History and Government Qatar was long governed by the rulers of neighboring Bahrain.
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