The Minister of Energy and Industry and Chairman and Managing Director of QP H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada with officials and visitors at the QP Environment Fair yesterday.
DOHA: Qatar Shell is reaching out to hundreds of families and children visiting QP’s Environment Fair 2013, under the patronage of the Minister of Energy and Industry and Chairman and Managing Director of QP H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada.
Aligned with the theme of the event ‘cleaner energy for a sustainable world’ Shell is helping to enhance visitors’ awareness of energy supply and demand, environmental consequences and means of reducing energy consumption.
Wael Sawan, Chairman of Qatar Shell Companies said: “We are extremely proud to support QP at the Environment Fair yet again. The environment is everyone’s responsibility and with our partner QP we hope the fair helps to further educate the young and local community on the energy challenges we face as well as the contributions we can all make to address these.”
Qatar is already providing cleaner burning fuels to the world through QP and Shell’s joint gas to liquids project, Pearl GTL, Shell has said. When used for transport, GTL fuel significantly improves local air quality. Natural gas is also a more environmentally friendly alternative to coal when used to create electricity. On a well to wire basis, natural gas emits around half the CO2 of coal plants.
Qatalum is also taking part in this year’s QP Environmental Fair, taking place at Doha Exhibition Center until tomorrow. The company’s involvement this year seeks to build on the success of last year’s fair, which included a so-called ‘ECO step’ concept, and to deliver messages to visitors that aluminium is a genuinely sustainable metal that can lead to a more sustainable world.
The company’s 2013 theme for the Fair relates to creating renewable energy solutions, portraying aluminium as a renewable energy source contributing to energy crisis prevention, showing that aluminium helps to preserve energy sources and can participate in the emerging clean energy market globally. Aluminium, Qatalum is keen to emphasise, helps to improve environmental performance due to its energy efficiency.
Qatalum’s CEO, Tom Petter Johansen, said: “Qatalum is committed to sustainability, both within the company and the industry at large. Taking part in events such as this helps to bring to a new audience the sustainability argument for aluminium, and encourage ‘buy-in’ among a younger generation to the concepts of efficiency, sustainability, and the importance of recycling”, he said.
‘Clean Energy for a Sustainable World’ is the message Qatargas, the world’s largest LNG producer, is supporting as part of a campaign to highlight the importance of water and energy saving and recycling at this year’s fair.
The Qatargas pavilion at the fair provides visitors with tips on the rational use of water and energy at home and features interactive activities for children aiming to become energy, water saving and recycling ambassadors. The Peninsula
