Within short period of time, the State of Qatar has made great strides in all fields of economy especially the industrial ones.
Oil revenues have been well utilized to establish a solid base for oil and gas related industries and other basic industries, and build an advanced infrastructure capable of serving national industries and responding to its future needs and challenges.
The Ministry of Industry and Energy works to build a strong industrial base, import industrial products, diversify national income sources and increase the contribution of the industrial sector in the gross domestic product (GDP) with a view to achieve a balanced economic growth aside from oil revenues.
The Ministry of Industry and Energy has adopted several goals that include developing and supporting industrial sector to diversify sources of national income; increasing the added value of intermediary materials; encouraging the private sector to increase its contribution to industrial development; increasing the contribution of manufacturing industries sector to the GDP, encouraging and supporting high energy consuming industries and clean industries; enhancing the integration between industrial, oil and gas and other economic sectors; and finally achieving the highest possible level of integration between various industrial sectors.