DOHA: The seventh edition of the three-day QP Environment Fair 2013 will open on Saturday at the Doha Exhibition Center. It will be formally inaugurated by Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry and Chairman and Managing Director of Qatar Petroleum (QP), a press statement said yesterday.
The ceremony will be attended by senior officials from QP’s directorates and departments and the top management of QP subsidiaries, joint venture partners and other major players in Qatar’s oil and gas industry.
The fair, under Dr Al Sada’s patronage, will showcase environmental programmes and initiatives of over 35 companies and organisations in Qatar.
The theme of the event this year is ‘Clean Energy for a Sustainable World’.
The exhibition will be open to the public from 8am to 8pm for three days.
It will also feature a wide range of entertaining and educational activities for students and the whole family. Among the activities is the play What is happening on the island? which will be staged three times daily by Sasol.
Doha: A book of condolence for the former British prime minister, Baroness Margaret Thatcher, has been kept at the British embassy in Qatar.
It will remain open for the public to sign and write messages today, tomorrow and on Sunday from noon to 3pm at British Ambassador Michael O’Neill’s residence, the embassy said in a release yesterday.
People wishing to sign can come to the embassy’s main gate with photographic identification where they will be directed to the ambassador’s residence.
The Peninsula
