BY MOHAMAD SHOEB
DOHA: Qatar Fuel (Woqod), local distributors of petroleum and cooking gas, may reduce the time frame to phase out metal cooking gas cylinders from the local market.
Senior Woqod officials yesterday said the phasing out may take four to five years.
Mohammed Khalifa Turki Al Sobai, Vice Chairman of Woqod, was talking about a phasing out plan of five years when the chairman of the board of directors of the corporation, H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, intervened and said that was too long a
time.
Al Attiyah, Chairman of the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority, is also Chairman of Woqod.
Al Attiyah, Al Sobai and other officials of the corporation were interacting with media persons before the annual general meeting of the company’s shareholders at the corporation’s head office
here.
An outspoken Al Attiyah quipped: “In my opinion, five years is too long a period. So I am instructing the management to revise the phasing out plan”.
Al Attiyah said the transparent cylinders made of fibreglass and plastic (called ‘Shafaf’ in Arabic) are not only safer but are also more user-friendly.
Asked if the company had any plans to channel piped cooking gas to homes and commercial users, Al Attiyah replied in the negative and said piped gas was distributed in the Industrial Area.
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