Qatar Rifts With IOCs Date Back Years

摘要

For years, Qatar was held up as the Mideast paradigm for good relations between foreign oil firms and hydrocarbon-rich countries. But US diplomatic cables recently released by activist site Wikileaks suggest cracks in that rosy relationship dating back to 2008, including early tension that could have sowed the seeds for Exxon Mobil's serious row with the Qatari government last year (WGI Jun.22'11.p1).