Can Western oil giants break the Gulf impasse?

Isolated Qatar appears to be hoping for just that

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A gas production facility in Ras Laffan in northern Qatar

HIROFUMI MATSUO, Nikkei senior staff writer

TOKYO -- One after another, the top executives of Western oil majors have been stepping into the great Persian Gulf rift.

It has been more than two months since Saudi Arabia and other Arab states severed diplomatic ties with Qatar, and there are no signs of a thaw. But soon after the decision was made, a oil bosses began heading to Doha, the Qatari capital.

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