Emir Appoints Al Sada as Qatar Petroleum Chairman
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Qatar’s Oil Minister Mohammed Saleh Al Sada was appointed chairman and managing director of state-owned energy company Qatar Petroleum today by the country’s Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, according to a decree cited by the official Qatar News Agency today.
Al Sada replaced former Oil Minister Abdullah Al-Attiyah, who was made head of the Emir’s court last month after 19 years as Qatar’s top energy official. Al Sada, who earned his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester’s Institute of Science and Technology in the U.K., will head a company that owns a majority stake in all of Qatar’s liquefied natural gas plants.