Qatar to boost refining

Qatar plans to spend two billion riyals (550 million US dollars ) on expanding the output capacity of its lone refinery to 137,000 barrels per day from 80,000 by the year 2000, an official report said on July 28.

"The expansion plan comprises the construction of a 27,000 barrel per day condensate refinery and the fractionation of condesates produced from Dukhan field with a production capacity of 30,000 barrels per day," said the state-owned Qatar General Petroleum Corporation (QGPC) in its annual report.