[Qatar4Ever]

Finally, I thought this project would never come through.

The Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy and Industry H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah has said that Qatar will provide the Kingdom of Bahrain with natural gas. Abdullah bin Hamad, who is also board chairman of Qatar Petroleum (QP) noted that the step came in implementation of sublime directives of the Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and H M King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa of the Kingdom of Bahrain. In a statement, Abdullah bin Hamad said the relevant final preparations would be completed by the joint committee comprising qp and the concerned parties in the Kingdom of Bahrain to place the final arrangements for the deal. The Minister voiced hope that vital project will be carried out as soon as possible as it will produce positive fruits enhancing interests of the two brotherly countries.
:cheers:

 

[Qatar4Ever]

اعلن السيد عبدالله بن حمد العطية النائب الثاني لرئيس مجلس الوزراء وزيرالطاقة والصناعة رئيس مجلس ادارة (قطر للبترول أمس ان دولة قطر بصدد تزويد مملكة البحرين بالغاز الطبيعي تنفيذا للتوجيهات السامية لحضرة صاحب الجلالة الملك حمد بن عيسى آل خليفة عاهل البلاد المفدى واخيه صاحب السمو الشيخ حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني أمير دولة قطر الشقيقة. واشار السيد العطية في تصريح لوكالة الانباء القطرية الى ان الترتيبات النهائية سوف تتم من خلال اللجنة المشتركة المشكلة من (قطر للبترول والجهات ذات الاختصاص في مملكة البحرين لوضع الترتيبات النهائية. وأعرب النائب الثاني وزير الطاقة والصناعة القطري عن الامل في أن يتم إنجاز هذا المشروع الحيوي في اسرع وقت ممكن نظرا إلى ما له من تأثير ايجابي على البلدين الشقيقين.

وقد أعرب صاحب السمو الشيخ سلمان بن حمد آل خليفة ولي العهد عن سعادته بهذه الخطوة، وقال انها ستسهم في تحقيق التنمية الاقتصادية بالبحرين من خلال التوسع في العديد من المشاريع الصناعية والتنموية التي بدورها تسهم في إيجاد فرص عمل جديدة لأبناء البلاد إلى جانب الدعم الكبير للصناعات الثقيلة والمتوسطة ومشاريع الطاقة الكهربائية وتحلية المياه.. وجاء في تقرير لوكالة أنباء البحرين: ان أجواء التفاهم والمودة التي تسود العلاقات البحرينية القطرية مدعومة بإرادة سياسية قوية وحرص مشترك تبشر بمستقبل واعد وزاهر ينتظر البلدين على الصعيد الثنائي وعلى الصعيد الجماعي في إطار منظومة دول مجلس التعاون لدول الخليج العربية إذ لا شك في أن الخطوات الطيبة لتوطيد وتوثيق التعاون الأخوي بين البحرين وقطر ستنعكس ايجابا على تعزيز التعاون الثنائي وتحقيق المزيد من فرص التكامل بما يعود بالنفع والخير على البلدين وشعبيهما الشقيقين في كل ما يربط بين البلدين والشعبين الشقيقين من رباط الدم والاخوة والعقيدة ماضيا وحاضرا ومستقبلا.​

AKG

 

[Bahraini Spirit]

Cool, let's just wait for the causeway now, dunno what happened with that, hopefully it'll happen sometime soon although they gave it the green light.

 

[B-Patriot]

I have a feeling the causeway is gonna be one of those projects that take forever...

About this deal, sounds good, i like how the relations between Qatar and Bahrain are improving continuosly...But do we really need such a deal?? I mean our oil reserves are really dwindling, but don't we have a good bit of gas that should be enough for us locally, and last a good few yrs, a couple of decades or soo at the very least i'd imagine....

 

[Moody]

To run ALBA

 

[Qatar4Ever]

Patriot, the natural gas in bahrain is found along with oil. In order to extract the natural gas from the oil wells will be a very costy process, not to mention this gas is best used as reinjections into the well to help extract oil from the ground. And the amount of gas bahrain has isnt sufficient enough for the economics of a grass root project of extracting gas for domestic use. It would be more economical is bahrain would pipeline natural gas from about 50 or 60 miles accross the sea.
I also think that the price of gas sold into bahrain would be at a very competative rate.

As moody said most of this gas would go into alba, espically after its expansion work. It will also go to power other heavy industries in bahrain rather than for domestic use.

 

[B-Patriot]

aha.. thnx

Maybe we should build a nuclear power plant, lol =S with soo little oil left, apparently, for the most part, useless reserves of natural gas, and a big world class auminium smelting industry, not to mention a growing population, it might be a good idea...Well, if it wasn't for all the stigma and paranoia maybe!

 

[Bahraini Spirit]

I kinda agree, nuclear has it's advantages. It won't be easy though.


About this, first article here:

http://pdf.alayam.com/Archive/PDF/May_2005/7-5-2005/Page45.pdf

 

[Marshal]

What is going on with the Qatar / Pakistan or Qatar / India pipeline??

 

[Moody]

India is to get its Gas from Iran through Pakistan of course, never heard that Qatar will supply india? any news on that ??Qatar 4 ever?

 

[Marshal]

Well I think the plan was to extend the pipeline from qatar into Iran and feed it into the India-Pakistan-Iran pipeline?

Under water would be too costly1

 

[Moody]

See, Iran and Qatar extract from same reserve...humm confused dont know what they are doing exactly with this one.

 

[Qatar4Ever]

There is an idea that theDolphin project which supplies AD, Dubai and in the phase two of the project Oman with Qatari Gas would be further extended in the next decade to go all the way to pakistan and feed pakistan and india was qatar gas. The idea is still on the table but very unlikely to happen as someone had mentioned inda and pakistan have gone into a deal with iran recently for gas.
Yes, both iran and qatar share the same natural gas field. Qatar has a bigger chunk of the gas field