The past few years have seen the UAE embark on a massive, multi-billion dollar program of investment in its Natural Gas sector including a shift toward natural gas-fired power plants and the transformation of the Taweelah commercial district into a natural gas-based industrial zone. An ambitious plan, the Dolphin Project, to interconnect the natural gas grids of Qatar, the UAE, and Oman, also is underway. Most of the UAEs increased natural gas needs in the next decade are to be satisified with imported natural gas from Qatar. Much of the natural gas development in the UAE itself involves the extraction of natural gas liquids (NGLs) and reinjection of the gas to maintain pressure in oilfields.