Qatar Petroleum to List 49 Percent of Its Shares in Qamco on Qatar Exchange
In an effort at boosting private sector participation in the joint venture, Qatar Petroleum announced this weekend that it plans...
State of Qatar
Qatar Petroleum Sets Qamco IPO For October 30
Shares of Qatar Aluminium Manufacturing Company (Qamco) will go on sale to the general public on October 30, as announced yesterday by Qatar Petroleum (QP), following through on an earlier promise to sell 49 percent of its shares in the subsidiary. Per...
Qatar to Construct Domestic Aluminium Plant Amid Ongoing Economic Embargo
In a bid at increasing its economic self reliance in the face of an ongoing regional embargo against it, a...
Qatar Investment Authority Mulls Buying In to En+’s Upcoming IPO
Russian Federation energy concern En+ Group may have found another major buyer for its planned IPO in London and Moscow...
Events
Qatar’s Aluminium Industry Greets New Hamad Port as Boon to Sector’s Development
Qatar officially commissioned Hamad Port earlier today, which is a development viewed by the country’s aluminium industry as a significant step forward in foreign trade and domestic industrial development. Al Shaheen Aluminium, Glass & UPVC Factory chairman Shaheen al-Muhannadi lauded the development, noting that economic globalization has led to a vast exchange in ideas and […]
Qatalum Shipping Aluminium Through Kuwait, Oman: Hydro’s Brandtzæg
Qatalum is shipping product via ports in Kuwait and Oman at present, solving at least for the near future the problem with which it suddenly found itself last week after Qatar’s neighbors cut ties with it due to a diplomatic kerfluffle. Yesterday Norsk Hydro’s chief Svein-Richard Brandtzæg elaborated upon plans alluded to late last week […]
Qatalum Identifies New Aluminium Export Route Around Diplomatic Unpleasantness
A spokesman from Norsk Hydro told Reuters yesterday that Qatalum has been successful in its quest to identify new routes for exporting the aluminium it smelts. The unnamed spokesman from Hydro did not specify what those routes were, but he did say that delays in delivery may be in the offing due to the re-routing. […]
Qatalum Racing to Find Alternate Aluminium Shipping Routes in Wake of Regional Diplomatic Crisis
Norsk Hydro told the media yesterday that Qatalum is scrambling to solve the logistical problems with which it has been saddled after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt cut off all ties with their neighbor Qatar. The tiny peninsular state found itself isolated from its neighbors earlier this week after longstanding issues […]
Qatalum Receives Environmental Award at Arabal 2016
Qatari aluminium firm Qatalum is the recipient of the ‘Environmental Excellence Award’ bestowed by the Gulf Aluminium Council. The award was made during the Arab International Aluminium Conference (Arabal 2016) held last week in Dubai. According to local media, the award is in recognition of the firm’s “continual effort” to observe good environmental stewardship by […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
