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Qatar don’t do things by half. Ever since its first offshore oil field was discovered in 1960, the tiny Gulf state’s stature has simply exploded on a seemingly unstoppable wave of wealth, harvested from the vast natural reserves of hydrocarbon fuels. According to the US Energy Information Administration, the country has become the World’s leading Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) producer, and despite being a relatively minor crude oil exporter amongst OPEC members, it still brought in over $55bn in 2012 from that sector alone.
