petrol station Archives

2 min

News

Doha’s Al Waab fuel station closes for renovations

Al Waab petrol station on Al Waab Street shut earlier this week, to the dismay of many motorists already bemoaning a shortage of fuel stations in the center of the city. It is set to re-open next week, staff members said.

2 min

News

One of Qatar’s oldest petrol stations to close next month

The Arabian Gulf (Al Khalij Al Arabi) station on Al Rayyan Road, opposite the HMC ambulance station, will permanently close around the middle of July, an employee there told Doha News.

2 min

News

Qatar losing two more privately-owned petrol stations

In a notice published today, Doha Petrol Station in Musheireb announced that it would close on Wednesday (April 13). That follows the quiet closure of a petrol station on C-Ring Road between Gulf Cinema and Toyota signals, which residents began to notice last week.

News

Qatar Cabinet approves new rules for petrol station regulator

The committee was formed in 2014, several months after the chair of the Central Municipal Council called unsafe petrol stations “a time bomb.”

3 min

Business

Doha (finally) gets another petrol station

The opening comes as Qatar’s state-controlled petrol distribution system struggles to keep pace with the country’s rapidly growing population and increase in the number of vehicles on the road.

4 min

Culture
Life

Qatar residents encouraged to thank fuel station attendants

As part of a Ramadan effort, more than a dozen women and their families have been delivering bags with essentials such as toiletries, t-shirts, sunglasses and sunblock to men working the petrol pumps in the midday heat at stations across the country.

2 min

Life

Doha petrol station, area shops closed over possible gas leak

A Civil Defense official onsite declined to discuss what was happened, saying only that they were responding to an “emergency situation" near Immigration Roundabout.

1 min

“They are a time bomb,” CMC chairman says about unsafe gas stations

Saud bin Abdullah al Hanzab, chairman of the Central Municipal Council (CMC), speaks about the weekend blast at Al Andalus Petrol Station on C Ring Road.

2 min

News

Apparent explosion at petrol station causes ground collapse

(Updates at bottom include MOI comments and details of two student journalists getting arrested for filming at the scene.) What appears to have been an underground explosion at the Al…

petrol station