Offshore oil concessions in Qatar1975-1948

Abstract

     The offshore oil concessions in Qatar played a major role in shaping the political, economic and social agenda in that emirate after the Second World War. In 1952, Shell-Qatar Offshore Oil Company won the marine concession, and the judiciary and arbitration entered the international competition line. The concessions were subjected to natural and technical obstacles that postponed the company’s business for several years until it was able to export it in commercial quantities in 1964, as the discovery of oil in the offshore fields deepened the maritime border disputes. , especially with the Emirate of Abu Dhabi on Halul Island Which included Qatari territorial waters with British political support. Al-Ad al-Sharqi, Maidan Mahzam, Bual Hanin, Bunduq, Khaleej, al-Shaheen, Rayyan and Karkara are among the most important Qatari marine fields, as they provided the Qatari economy with millions of tons of oil and hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Ports, building oil depots, lighting towers and a radio station, providing hundreds of opportunities for workers, sending companies Hundreds of opportunities for workers and companies sending missions to develop skills, set up stations for electric power generation and water desalination, and contribute to the petrochemical and fertilizer industries, which motivated French, Japanese and American companies to enter that region. Then (60) percent, before it announced the nationalization of its oil sector in 1975, to which all those oil installations and facilities would be transferred to it, and it would be managed through its National Oil Corporation