LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell saidon Friday that exploration of its majority-owned QSD-1 naturalgas well in Qatar did not reveal commercial volumes.
The oil and gas major said that it remains committed tofuture plans in the gas-rich Gulf producer.
The well "reached total depth as planned; however, it didnot encounter commercial volumes of hydrocarbons," Shell said ina statement.
The QSD-1 project is 75 percent owned by Shell and 25percent owned by PetroChina. (Reporting by Ron Bousso, editing by William Hardy)