Qatar: Service Station Network to be ‘Regularly Inspected’ - Update
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
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Petrol stations in Qatar will be subjected to a regular inspection
system which aims to correct the current situation, a top official at
the Qatar Petroleum revealed.
Engineer Saad al-Kobeisi, director of Health and Environment Safety
department at QP, said the ad hoc committee, which has been recently
set up to examine the condition of petrol stations in the country,
would inform owners and managers of petrol stations about the new rules.
Al-Kobeisi expected a law regulating the functioning of petrol stations
in the country to be issued by the second quarter of 2010.
He added that an assessment made in all petrol stations revealed that
there was a problem with the inspection and monitoring systems. “It
found that international safety requirements were met by all petrol
stations, but there was lack of monitoring system,” the official was
quoted as saying by a local Arabic daily.
He added that inspectors had begun checks on petrol station last week to ensure they were complying with safety requirements.
The move follows an explosion of an underground fuel storage tank some two weeks ago at a petrol station in the Hilal area.
Some 50 people, who were in a bus which was refuelling at the time of the incident, were injured.
Investigations are still under way to identify the cause of the explosion, the official added.
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