Qatar, which hosts the 2022 FIFA World Cup this month, is one of the world’s largest exporters of natural gas and has benefited from huge windfalls from soaring global oil and gas prices.
While the country has several job openings for tourism and media sectors ahead of the World Cup, demand for oil and gas jobs, especially petroleum engineers remains high, which is also one of the highest paid jobs in the country. Other jobs in the sector such as technicians, oilfield and construction workers are also in demand, according to a local job portal.
According to experts, Qatar government’s revenue stream will substantially increase by the North Field Expansion, which is part of the world’s biggest gas field that Qatar shares with Iran.
Earlier this year, QatarEnergy announced Shell, TotalEnergies and ConocoPhillips as international partners on the company’s North Field South expansion, part of the world’s largest LNG project.
State-owned QatarEnergy has also signed deals for North Field East, the first and larger phase of the two-phase North Field expansion plan, which includes six LNG trains that will ramp up Qatar’s liquefaction capacity from 77 million tons per annum to 126 million tons by 2027.
