Article: Qatar - The Background.

After Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifa's September 1992 cabinet reshuffle, when he was crown prince, the state-owned Qatar General Petroleum Corp (QGPC) was given control over the petroleum sector. E&P terms to foreign firms improved and EPSAs were offered for new areas, onshore and offshore, and for existing offshore fields needing EOR systems.

The radical change for the better was necessary because upstream maintenance work and exploration had been reduced considerably in the first half of the 1980s, with only one rig active in 1984-87. Now there are several IOCs operating in blocks acquired since offers of EPSAs were made in 1993. QGPC now is named QP.

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