Qatar plans for the day it's all gassed out

Qatar is the second biggest economy in the Middle East region after Saudi Arabia. It doesn’t have much oil, but it does have the world’s third largest gas reserves, worth $24 trillion at today’s oil prices. Transportation used to be the problem for gas, because of the need to have enormous pipelines. That all changed when scientists worked out a way of cooling the gas and transporting it in liquid form in sea carriers. The country is so rich that, in theory, few Qataris (compris…