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HISTORY OF INITIAL ENERGY AND WATER NETWORK DEVELOPMENT IN QATAR

Qatar: A country which had to be associated with neighboring countries like UAE or Saudi Arabia for people to know about it, stands proud today due to the ample production and exporting of Black Gold. A country with almost no vegetation or suitable weather to harvest crops, turned from being heavily dependent on trading Pearls to exporting natural oil and gas to all over the globe. The paper outlines in details the history of the development of Energy sector in the State of Qatar. Being under British protection around the Arabian sea and Ottoman Empire from Land, there was not much of interest in this region. However, the scenario changed drastically after the discovery of Oil in 1938. Being able to produce and export the oil in huge quantity, it took Qatar less than 40 years to transform its energy sector totally. The paper describes these post oil discovery developments in the energy sector of the State of Qatar and links History to the Present.

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