Qatar Petroleum

Qatar Petroleum, Qatar Petroleum will be the main sponsor of the official opening ceremony of the third Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (Dimdex 2012) set to take place in March.

Dimdex, the pre-eminent maritime defence event in the Mena region, will be staged in the new Qatar National Convention Centre from March 26 to 28.

Held under the patronage of Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, deputy commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, Dimdex 2012 is hosted by the Qatar Armed Forces and the Qatari Emiri Naval Forces.

Sultan Abdulla Ali Al-Abdulla, manager for public relations and communications, QP, said: “The international exhibition and conference would surely contribute in ensuring the continued security of our maritime assets, and our sponsorship of this event is in line with our commitment to support all initiatives related to national development.”

QP is Qatar’s state-owned petroleum corporation and the leading national organisation entrusted with the development of the country’s hydrocarbon resources. It is responsible for all phases of the oil and gas industry in Qatar.

Its principal activities include covering the exploration, drilling and production, transport, storage, marketing and sale of crude oil, as well as natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas, refined products, petrochemicals and fertilizers.

Dimdex 2012 is the only specialised maritime naval defence and security exhibition in the Mena region. It brings together defence exhibitors from all over the world to showcase innovative maritime defence technologies. – TradeArabia News Service

Spain Village 950M Lottery

Spain Village 950M Lottery, An entire Spain village is celebrating a lottery win, with the exception of one man who did not enter with the rest of the town residents.

The village of farmers and construction workers is now enjoying a minimum payout of $130,000 per resident except for Costis Mitsotakis, a Greek filmmaker “who moved to the village for a woman,” a report has revealed.

The way the village enters the lottery is though a group pool and somehow Mitsotakis was overlooked.

He appears to hold no ill will.

The Lottery Post reveals:

“Mr. Mitsotakis said it would have been nice to win. But he has benefited nonetheless. He had been trying to sell some land without much success. The day after the lottery a neighbor called to say he would buy it. The next day another neighbor called. But Mr. Mitsotakis refused to get into a bidding war.”

“This is a small village,” he said. “You don’t want bad feelings.”

The report explains what a major event the drawing is in the European country.

The lottery, first established in 1812, is a huge event in Spain. Many people take the morning off to watch the televised coverage of the numbers being drawn from a gilded spinning cage. Spain’s lottery works differently from those in the United States. This year there were 1,800 first-prize-winning tickets with the same number, 58268, each paying $520,000. As the tickets cost $26 each, they are often broken down into $6.50 “participations.'”

Cezanne Priciest Painting

Cezanne Priciest Painting, The nation of Qatar which is better known for its oil than its European art collection has purchased a painting by the post Impressionist, Paul Cézanne for what is thought to be the highest price ever paid for a work of art. The Card Players was purchased for more than £158.4 ($250m). There are four other versions of the painting located in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée d’Orsay, the Courtauld, and the Barnes Foundation. Qatar was ranked the world’s biggest contemporary art buyer last year. The Qatar National Museum is now a likely new home for The Card Players.

The painting was bought last year from George Embiricos, a Greek shipping magnate who passed away soon after the sale was completed. The amount paid to acquire it was disclosed yesterday by Vanity Fair Magazine. Embiricos had rarely loaned the painting to institutions. His estate rejected offers put in by two of the world’s top art dealers, Larry Gagosian and William Acquavella, of approximately £139?million when the Qatari royal family trumped the offer. The sale has been rumoured for over three months. The Qatar Royal family also notably purchased Jackson Pollock’s No 5, 1948, in 2006 for £88.7.

Paul Cezanne January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cezanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century’s new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cezanne “is the father of us all” cannot be easily dismissed.