After a coup, his uncle Emir Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani became the 8th Emir of Qatar, and appointed his father as the minister of interior for the period of 1972 to 1989.
Two production-sharing agreements were signed with the Standard Oil Company of Ohio in January 1985 and Amoco in February 1986.
Wiz Khalifa | Burj Khalifa | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | Ramzi bin al-Shibh | Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan | Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi | Osama Bin Laden | Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum | Death of Osama bin Laden | Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum | Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan | Khalifa | Ich bin ein Berliner | Abu Hamad | Udon Thani | Pathum Thani | Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan | Bassam Abdullah bin Bushar al-Nahdi | Bae Soo-bin | Adel Hassan Hamad | Wu Bin | Wee Bin & Co. | Turki bin Faisal Al Saud | Surat Thani Province | Sultan bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan | Said Ali bin Said Omar of Grande Comore | Qaboos bin Said al Said | Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad | Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad | Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan |