Qatar Petroleum committed to its part as both a concerned partner and affiliate for the environment, while assuring that the company's employees and moreover the general public live in a cleaner, safer world.

Furthermore, QP is committed to the protection, preservation and conservation of the natural environment and local amenities in all areas of operations.
To achieve this, QP and its subsidiaries comply with all applicable standards and legislation on the environment, both national and State-ratified international conventions and protocols.
QP sponsors and promotes environmental activities and outreach programmes, thus enhancing environmental education and awareness among its employees, the community and the public.
Programmes like the mangrove conservation programme, marine turtle protection programme and the reem protection project are given high priority.
Qatar Petroleum environmental objectives include reducing operational flaring to an acceptable minimum by process design and to conduct what flaring remains in an environmentally acceptable manner; to reduce sulphur emissions and remove sulphur from all streams as close to the source as is practicably feasible; to formulate a single unified corporate oil spill response plan; to minimise discharges into the environment; and to seek accreditation to the ISO 14001 standard, a globally recognised standard for excellence in environmental management.
To meet the continued increasing demand on the electronic infrastructure, the Information Technology Department is working diligently to enhance performance and reliability and introduce new state-of-the-art technologies.
In its pursuit of excellence, the Information Technology Department introduced a help desk organisation equipped with the latest in computer hardware and software to provide timely solutions to user problems.
This along with the newly commissioned Enterprise Management System enables the Information Technology Department to offer its corporate users world-class service.
Meanwhile, the Qatar Petroleum Refinery started as a small topping plant in 1958, which has grown over the years into a giant refinery organisation.
It is now successfully making the State of Qatar self-sufficient and export oriented in refined oil and petroleum products by providing added value to part of the country's natural wealth, improving refining economics and providing citizens with the necessary expertise in the areas of management, operation, engineering, maintenance and marketing.
The main finished products are liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), naphtha, gasoline, jet fuel, diesel and fuel oil.
The main activity of the refinery is to process the crude oil and condensate into various finished petroleum products. The finished products are intended to meet domestic/local demand and for the export as well.
The need and concept of the refinery's major expansion was developed as far back as 1995 and the project was formally launched on July 15, 1998 with a total project cost of estimated $850 million.
The condensate refinery was completed and put into commercial operation during July 2001 well ahead of schedule. In the same way the revamp was completed in December 2001 and FCC was commissioned during July 2002 well ahead of schedule.
Marketing and commercial aspects for the export of the refinery products are entirely controlled by the Qatar Petroleum Marketing Directorate.