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Ras Laffan Industrial City, the Glossary

Ras Laffan Industrial City (Ra’s Lafān) is a Qatari industrial hub located north of Doha.^[1]

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Cities in Qatar
Populated coastal places in Qatar
Populated places in Al Khor

Al Khor

Al Khor (الخور; also spelled Al Khawr), officially Al Khor and Al Thakhira, is a municipality in northeastern Qatar.

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Al Khor (Al Khawr) is a coastal city in northeast Qatar, located north of the capital Doha. Ras Laffan Industrial City and al Khor (city) are Cities in Qatar, Populated coastal places in Qatar and Populated places in Al Khor.

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Avicennia marina

Avicennia marina, commonly known as grey mangrove or white mangrove, is a species of mangrove tree classified in the plant family Acanthaceae (formerly in the Verbenaceae or Avicenniaceae).

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Beatrix of the Netherlands

Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard,; born 31 January 1938) is a member of the Dutch royal house who reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013.

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Cressa cretica

Cressa cretica is a species of flowering plant in the morning glory family.

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Cymbopogon commutatus

Cymbopogon commutatus is a perennial grass species, commonly known as incense grass, aromatic rush, camel's hay, or lemon grass.

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Cynomorium

Cynomorium is a genus of parasitic perennial flowering plants in the family Cynomoriaceae.

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Cyperus jeminicus

Cyperus jeminicus is a species of sedge that is native to parts of Africa, the Middle East and India.

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Cyrtopodion scabrum

Cyrtopodion scabrum, also known as the rough-tailed gecko, rough bent-toed gecko, rough-tailed bowfoot gecko, common tuberculate ground gecko, or keeled gecko, is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae.

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Depression (geology)

In geology, a depression is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area.

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Desalination

Desalination is a process that removes mineral components from saline water.

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Doha

Doha (ad-Dawḥa or ad-Dūḥa) is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Ras Laffan Industrial City and Doha are Populated coastal places in Qatar.

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Dolphin Energy

Dolphin Energy is a gas company of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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Dolphin Gas Project

The Dolphin Gas Project is the natural gas project of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman.

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ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.

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Fuwayrit

Fuwayrit (فويرط; also spelled as Fuwairat) is a Qatari coastal village in the municipality of Ash Shamal approximately 90 km north of the capital Doha. Ras Laffan Industrial City and Fuwayrit are Populated coastal places in Qatar.

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Gas to liquids

Gas to liquids (GTL) is a refinery process to convert natural gas or other gaseous hydrocarbons into longer-chain hydrocarbons, such as gasoline or diesel fuel.

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Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia

The Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia (nicknamed Lorimer) is a two-volume encyclopedia compiled by John Gordon Lorimer.

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Hamad Medical Corporation

Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is Qatar’s main not-for-profit health care provider, and is based in Doha.

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John Gordon Lorimer (civil servant)

John Gordon Lorimer CIE (14 June 1870 – 8 February 1914), also known as J. G. Lorimer, was a British diplomat, historian and colonial administrator.

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Kahramaa

Kahramaa (Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation), was established in July 2000 to regulate and maintain the supply of electricity and water for the population of Qatar.

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Liquefied natural gas

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport.

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LNG carrier

An LNG carrier is a tank ship designed for transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics

The Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (Arabic: وزارة التخطيط التنموي والإحصاء) is a governmental agency in the State of Qatar.

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Municipalities of Qatar

Since 2015, Qatar has been divided into eight municipalities.

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Nakilat Damen Shipyards Qatar

Nakilat Damen Shipyards Qatar (NDSQ) is a Qatar-based shipyard established in 2010 in a joint venture between Nakilat and Damen Group.

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Natural gas

Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.

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Oryx GTL

ORYX GTL (Arabic: أوريكس جي تي إل) is a synthetic fuel plant based in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar, owned by QatarEnergy (51%) and Sasol (49%).

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Pearl GTL

The Pearl GTL is a gas to liquids (GTL) plant based in Ras Laffan, Qatar.

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Phragmites australis

Phragmites australis, known as the common reed, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae.

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Port of Rotterdam

The Port of Rotterdam is the largest seaport in Europe, and the world's largest seaport outside of East Asia, located in and near the city of Rotterdam, in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands.

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Qatar

Qatar (قطر) officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf.

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QatarEnergy

QatarEnergy (قطر للطاقة), formerly Qatar Petroleum (QP), is a state owned petroleum company of Qatar.

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QatarEnergy LNG

QatarEnergy LNG, formerly Qatargas, is the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) company.

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Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalhami

Rahmah ibn Jabir ibn Adhbi al-Jalhami (رحمة بن جابر بن عذبي الجلهمي; c. 1760–1826) was an Arab ruler in the Persian Gulf region and was described by his contemporary, the English traveler and author, James Silk Buckingham, as "the most successful and the most generally tolerated pirate, perhaps, that ever infested any sea." As a pirate, he had a reputation for being ruthless and fearless.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_Laffan_Industrial_City

Also known as Ras Laffan.

Ras Laffan Industrial City, the Glossary

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See also

Cities in Qatar

Populated coastal places in Qatar

Populated places in Al Khor

References