The Qatar Projects Conference 2014 featured two trajectories; one which covered Qatar’s infrastructure & transport sector and another that focused on Qatar’s energy & utilities sector. First held in Doha in 2003, the Qatar Projects Conference is established as the premier annual conference focusing on development solutions to Qatar’s $200bn megaproject challenge. Eleven years later, the conference attracted more than 400 senior representatives from major local and international companies, government officials from Qatar and stakeholders from the across the GCC and the wider world.
The conference discussed the most pressing issues in Qatar’s projects markets today including inflation, labour and material shortage, new procurement requirements and the solutions to overcome these challenges. Key industry trends were mapped and technologies that are improving infrastructure performance, increasing ROI, and setting new standards for infrastructure delivery and deliverables were highlighted by various speakers.
The best practices in infrastructure design, delivery, and operations from peer organisations were also shared during the Qatar Projects Conference. The conference provided ample opportunity to network and interact with clients, operators, developers, contractors and industry thought leaders. The conference helped gain insight through presentations from clients who are procuring projects and helped businesses to learn how to prepare for, and take advantage of the key contracts being awarded in the country.
There were many and varied projects addressed at the Qatar Projects Conference Some of them were Manateq’s Economic Zones and projects development, the Al Karanaa Petrochemicals Complex Project - the largest multi-billion greenfield & petrochemicals project in the world, the latest developments and expansion plans for Hamad International Airport, Qatar Foundation's plans for overcoming the challenges associated with ensuring energy and water securities and capacity building for R&D, the revised Al Waab City master-plan and associated contractor opportunities, Qatar University’s expansion initiatives and revised plans for the Healthcare Facilities Master-Plan, Exxonmobil’s vision for further development of Qatar’s hydrocarbons market, through boost in environmental research programmes and Sasol Qatar’s commercial & technical developments for small scale GTL projects today and strategies to overcoming the challenges in the operation of a combination of technologies.
Qatar Projects Conference is held under the patronage of H.E. Dr. Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Sada, Minister of Energy & Industry and Chairman & Managing Director of Qatar Petroleum and under the support of Ashghal, continues its comprehensive review of Qatar’s projects market today with a detailed quantitative and qualitative forecast and assessment of the Qatar & GCC Projects market. It presented facts, figures and forecasts on Qatar’s infrastructure and energy projects market giving attendees the ability to make clear plans and strategic decision, for companies operating in Qatar or considering entering this fastest growing project market.