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Qatar Airways, QSTP and Qatar Petroleum to Develop Renewable Biojet Fuel with Support of Airbus; Formation of Qatar Advanced Biofuel Platform

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Qatar Airways, Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) and Qatar Petroleum (QP) will jointly carry out engineering, economic analysis and move into the development of renewable biojet fuel that will also look into ways for production and supply, with the support of Airbus. Ongoing market and strategic analysis.

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IHS Markit: US poised to be world’s largest LNG exporter in 2022 as China becomes top LNG importer

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The report, LNG Trade in 2021: Runaway Recovery , finds that the United States, which was the third-largest LNG exporter behind Australia and Qatar for the full year of 2021, is poised to claim the top spot in 2022. MMt), followed by Qatar at 81.3 Total loaded LNG supply in 2021 reached 396.3 MMt, up 5.5% MMt relative to 2020.

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New approach for synthetic rubber for degradable tires: converting cyclopentene to polypentenamers

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A team from the Texas A&M University campus in Qatar (TAMU-Qatar) and Caltech has developed a new way to make synthetic rubber; once this material is discarded, it can be easily degraded back to its chemical building blocks and reused in new tires and other products. —Antisar Hlil, TAMU-Qatar. Bazzi, Ph.D.

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ADB: Projected cost of Uzbek Oltin Yo’l GTL plant increases by 37% to $5.6B

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The technology used is similar to that of the pioneering ORYX GTL plant in Qatar. Uzbekistan started forming a banking consortium to finance the plant construction in September 2013. Click to enlarge. At the core of Sasol’s GTL technology is the Sasol Slurry Phase Distillate Process (SPD process).

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Suncor Energy sells majority of conventional natural gas business in Western Canada for $1B

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Suncor Energy has reached an agreement to sell the conventional portion of its natural gas business in Western Canada for $1 billion to a newly established partnership between Centrica plc and Qatar Petroleum International. Estimated production from this business in 2013 is approximately 42,000 boe/d (90% gas).

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Qatalum at full production

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Qatalum, a joint venture by Qatar Petroleum and Hydro, achieved its full production capacity of 585,000 tonnes of primary aluminum on 21 September. There are already plans to boost the production to 609,000 tonnes annually from 2013.

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EIA ups total shale oil resource estimate by 13% to 419B barrels, shale gas by 4% to 7576 Tcf

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Oman exports liquefied natural gas (LNG) but imports some volumes of natural gas by pipeline from Qatar via the UAE. The UAE is a net exporter of LNG but increasingly imports natural gas by pipeline from Qatar. Oman increased oil production by 18% to 943,000 b/d and natural gas production by 32% to 2.8 Bcf/d from 2005 to 2014.