Reply #6: Qatar Has Quite a bit of Oil Of Their Own

[AndyTiedye]

Of the coalition countries, Qatar is probably the only one that can't really be accused of coveting Libya's oil, being an oil-exporting country themselves.
Perhaps this is why the deal was done with them. Of course it will be profitable for Qatar, and there may very well be an element of quid-pro-quo.
We can hardly accuse Qatar of a lack of transparency here though, we are reading about this on Al Jazeera.

It makes perfect sense to use Qatar as an intermediary, if the rebels started making deals with western oil companies directly,
Qadaffi's loyalists would be claiming that those oil companies were behind the whole insurgency.