Table of Contents
Executive Summary — 5 SWOT
Analysis — 7 Qatar Petrochemicals Sector Industry
SWOT — 7 Qatar Political SWOT — 8
Qatar Economic SWOT — 8 Qatar Business Environment
SWOT — 9 Global Market Overview — 10
Global Ethylene Capacities — 10 Table: World Ethylene
Production By Country, 2008 And 2013 (‘000 tonnes
capacity) — 10 Polypropylene — 13
Global Oil Products Market Review — 16 Table Global Oil
Prices, 2003-2013 (US$ per barrel) — 20 Gulf Regional
Overview — 21 Table: Announced Ethylene Cracker Projects
In The Gulf Region — 23 Qatar Market
Overview — 24 Table: Qatar’s Petrochemical
Plants — 24 Petrochemicals Business
Environment — 26 Table: Middle East And Africa
Petrochemicals Business Environment Ratings — 26 Limits Of
Potential Returns — 27 Risks To Realisation Of
Returns — 27 Qatar’s Foreign Investment
Policy — 28 Industry Trends And
Developments — 31 Downstream
Developments — 33 Olefins — 37
Derivatives — 41 Table: Upcoming And Recent
Projects — 42 Qatar-China
relations — 42 Financial
Developments — 43 Industry Forecast
Scenario — 44 Table: Qatar’s Petrochemicals Sector,
2006-2013 — 46 Macroeconomic
Outlook — 46 Table: Qatar – Economic Activity,
2006-2013 — 49 Company Monitor — 50
Qatar Petrochemicals Company (Qapco) — 50 Qatar Chemical
Company (Q-Chem) — 51 Qatar Vinyl Company
(QVC) — 52 Qatar Fertiliser Company
(Qafco) — 53 Qatar Fuel Additives Company
(Qafac) — 54 Qatar Plastic Products Company
(QPPC) — 55 Country Snapshot: Qatar Demographic
Data — 56 Section 1: Population — 56
Table: Demographic Indicators, 2005-2030 — 56 Table:
Rural/Urban Breakdown, 2005-2030 — 57 Section 2: Education
And Healthcare — 57 Table: Education,
2002-2005 — 57 Table: Vital Statistics,
2005-2030 — 57 Section 3: Labour Market And Spending
Power — 58 Table: Employment Indicators,
2001-2004 — 58 Table: Consumer Expenditure, 2000-2012
(US$) — 58 Table: Average Annual Manufacturing Wages,
2001-2005 — 58 BMI Methodology — 59
How We Generate Our Industry Forecasts — 59 Chemicals And
Petrochemicals Industry — 59 Cross
Checks — 60 Business Environment
Ratings — 60 Table: Petrochemicals Business Environment
Indicators And Rationale — 61
Weighting — 62 Table: Weighting Of
Indicators — 62
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