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Qatar Airways to fly planes on Gas to Liquid Fuel

 
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:58 am    Post subject: Qatar Airways to fly planes on Gas to Liquid Fuel Reply with quote

Qatar Airways announced plans to be the first airline to utilise natural gas fuels and confirmed it was in talks with Royal Dutch Shell regarding the use of Gas-To-Liquid (GTL)fuels (Reuters, 15-Mar-07).

Qatar Airways: “We are talking to Shell and as soon as the engine manufacturers have certified their engines to be used with GTL, Qatar Airways will be the first airline to fuel its airplanes with GTL. I was told they would get certification by the end of the year," Akbar Al Baker, CEO.

Source: Reuters, 15-Mar-07.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Amazing.
I never thought a Gulf country would be the 1st to opt out of normal ATF Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Qatar has one of the largest Natural gas reserves in the world and they have started exploiting it in 1998 only.
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