Life on the Spot! Life and Leisure in Doha, Qatar

Before, Saudi Arabia was the place to be when looking for a job outside of your country. With projects left and right, Saudi Arabia needed people to make desert sand into infrastructure. When people say Middle East, a lot would say Saudi Arabia was the Middle East. No mention of Dubai, Qatar, Oman or the other GCC countries. In the Philippines, men would line up to recruiting agencies hoping to get that plane ticket to the Land of Oil. And probably that was the same for other Westerners as I’ve worked with a lot whose age is much like my dad’s. That was the 1980’s.

We’ve also seen the influx of people to Dubai when its industries started booming. Everybody had their sites on Dubai as they saw the amount of manpower needed to fill the new commercial hub in the Middle East. Dubai became the next destination when it came to Job hunting.

Now, Qatar probably has the most number of newly hired expats arriving at its airport daily. Looking at message boards, forums and personal emails, certainly, more and more people are getting interested into coming here. Not just that. I know a lot of people who came from Saudi (technically I was coming from Bahrain and not Saudi having worked 4-5 months there before I came here) and even trying to recruit their colleagues to join the Qatar workforce. There are a lot of vacancies for Information Technology jobs, Oil and Gas jobs, Hotel and Management, Human Resources, Engineering and more. So if you’re one of those interested, here are some links to help you on your way to getting a job in Qatar. The links open directly to their Job/Career pages so you may want to bookmark this specific entry. Remember that even those in though I’m categorizing them into industries, job positions are not limited to that specific category as an Oil & Gas company would also need people to fill vacancies in HR or in Medical. Make sure you don’t skip any of them. I’ll be posting more company websites and career pages in a couple of days…


Oil and Gas
Qatar Petroleum (QP) – The state- owned Petroleum Company is set to be the largest gas producer in the world. Operations range from exploration and drilling to production, refining and distribution of oil, gas and by-products to the world markets.

Mesaieed Industrial City (MIC) – One of the two Industrial Cities in Qatar, it is cCurrently being developed as Qatar’s main port of operation with future plans to make it a business park for corporations and industries.

Qatar Fuel Additives Company Limited (QAFAC) - Qatar Fuel Additives Company Limited (QAFAC) was established as a Qatari joint stock company to build, own and operate facilities in Mesaieed, Qatar for the production of methanol and methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) for sale to customers worldwide.

Ras Laffan Industrial City (RLC) -  Ras laffan Industrial City, a directorate of Qatar Petroleum, is a multi purpose, multi-dimensional industrial city, which operates an industrial port and provides integrated services as well as several industrial facilities to existing industries and prospective investors.

SEEF - SEEF Limited owns a Plant to produce Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB), a hydrocarbon based Petrochemical material used for manufacture of detergents.

RasGas - Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company Limited leads creation of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export industry in Qatar.

Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) - QAPCO was established in 1974 as a joint multinational venture to utilise the associated and non-associated Ethane gas from petroleum production in line with the industrialization plan of the State Qatar. it is one of the Companies located in the Mesaieed Industrial City (MIC), producing fertilizers, steel, refined petroleum products and natural gas liquids. QAPCO plant is situated on the seacoast with jetty facilities and exports its entire range of products worldwide.

ORYX GTL - Rising from the desert with great speed and efficiency is the gas to liquids production facility, ORYX GTL, a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum (51%) and Sasol of South Africa (49%). The first of a series of planned GTL production facilities that will deliver on the declared ambition of the State of Qatar to become the GTL capital of the world.

Qatar Fertilizer Company (QAFCO) – A joint- venture company, QAFCO has become one of the main producers and exporters of ammonia and urea in the world.

InfraStructure

Qatar Steel Company (QASCO) - With its latest production technology and equipment, the plant generates an annual production of 1.2 million tons of molten steel and a rolling mill capacity of 740,000 tons per year. The total workforce of approximately 1,250 comprises 12 different nationalities and with the exception of the office staff, the mill is run on a 3 shift system.

Aviation

Gulf Helicopter - Gulf Helicopters Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qatar Petroleum, a company fully owned by the government of the State of Qatar and shares common objectives including a commitment to excellence and progressive expansion.

Qatar Airways - Qatar Airways is the national carrier of the Arabian Gulf State of Qatar. They now are ne of the world’s fastest growing airlines since the airline was re-launched in 1997.

more to come!!!