Qatar Names Al Sada Energy Minister, Replacing Attiyah
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Qatar appointed Mohammed Saleh Al Sada as energy minister, replacing Abdullah Al-Attiyah, an architect of the Persian Gulf nation’s transformation into the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas.
Al Sada, minister of state for energy and industry since 2007, was named to his new post by Qatar’s Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the government-run Qatar News Agency said today. The change came as the Persian Gulf sheikhdom, holder of the third-largest gas reserves, prepared to begin operating the last of 14 liquefied gas plants, a milestone marking an increase in its capacity for making the fuel by 15 percent to 77 million tons a year.