Qatari minister of petroleum participates in international energy conference

An official source in the Qatari General Corporation for Petroleum said that Minister of Energy and Industry Abdallah Bin Hamad al-Attiyah will head his country's delegation to the sixth international conference of energy that will be held in Capetown, South Africa.

Nearly 50 countries and international organizations will participate in the October 29-30 conference.

The source added that "the preliminary committee of the conference ratified last week the topics that will be discussed in the discussion session, which are supply and demand of raw petroleum, natural gas and petroleum products in the coming decade in light of reserves, technological advancement, globalization, the effect of supply and demand on the investments in the petroleum sector in light of regional needs, providing financing, the role of the private and public petroleum sectors on the local and international environment, and the economical and the political consequences on the petroleum sector."

Qatar participated in the meeting of the preliminary committee of the conference that was specified for discussion among the oil-producing countries and consumer countries.

The first conference was held in 1991 in France, and was followed by conferences in Norway, Spain, Venezuela and India.