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Article: Qatar - EPSAs Beyond The North Field.
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- APS Review Gas Market Trends
- Article date:
- August 31, 2009
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With a 2006 moratorium on EPSAs in the North Field likely to remain in place until 2014, Doha is focusing its efforts on other areas. But the Emir, Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, could make an exception in favour of the US/EU-backed Nabucco gas project (see news9TurkNabucco&HuT-Aug31-09). In early 2006, Doha said it wanted to give specialised engineers time to do detailed studies of the North Field structures, which in 2005 were expected to be ready before end-2010; but these have been delayed by the need of more comprehensive surveys.
The main thrust of the country's oil and gas E&P activity is currently focused on pre-Khuff Fms located outside the North ...