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Qatar is a peninsula that is coastal to the Persian Gulf near Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Qatar is known as the third largest country with natural gas reserves world-wide. It also holds home to the world’s largest non-associated natural gas reservoir that is called North Field. In this paper I will be talking about oil and its impacts on the economy and the environment in the country of Qatar. As a country Qatar’s economy depends highly on oil and natural gas. In other words, if Qatar no longer had any oil or natural gas left than Qatar’s economy would collapse because the biggest part of their economy would no longer exist. If this was to happen Qatar’s population would decrease dramatically because most of the inhabitants …show more content…

Soil trials were taken all over the Qatarian peninsula to test the radiation levels in the soil. One of the trials ended up being higher in radiation than all the other trials, all were taken from a coastal oil field and was automatically assumed that Tenorm was the cause with the mobility of Ra in oil-field rocks. There should have been more trials where the soil tested high in radiation. A trial investigation of metals in marine life occurred because of the 1991 oil spill. The only creature that was affected by this oil spill was the muddy lobster. The muddy lobster Hg and Cd levels were higher than they were before, but since they were the only species with a problem, it was thought other factors resulted from the higher levels of Hg and Cd. Since they do not know exactly what caused the Hg and Cd levels to spike they determined it was not because of the oil spill, but they do not know if it was a combination of factors with the oil spill that caused …show more content…

“To meet the requirements for wind energy one must have 2.54 m/s at 10m height. Doha’s highest wind speed is 5.2 m/s and the lowest wind speed is 3.5 m/s. Haloul highest wind speed is 7.1 m/s and the lowest wind speed is3.1 m/s.” Wind power can be accessed from Qatar. In conclusion in this paper I talked about oil and its impacts on the economy and the environment in the country of Qatar. Qatar’s economy cannot support its city population if it were to run out of oil. Qatar has a lot to offer from oil, gas, and wind energy. This is why people come to Qatar, for jobs in energy. The economy is based on energy resources, which could be Qatar’s economic downfall in the far

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