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sri_bom Member
Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 2365 Location: Singapore
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:58 am Post subject: Qatar Airways to fly planes on Gas to Liquid Fuel |
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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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HAWK21M Member
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 8132 Location: Mumbai, INDIA
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:19 am Post subject: |
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Amazing.
I never thought a Gulf country would be the 1st to opt out of normal ATF
regds
MEL _________________ Think of the Brighter side !!! |
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iceman Member
Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 55
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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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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