A Japanese/Italian consortium of Chiyoda Corporation and Snamprogetti has been awarded the onshore engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company II (RasGas II)to construct a fifth liquefaction train at the RasGas complex. Chiyoda, Snamprogetti, Japan's Mitsui & Companyand the local Almana Trading Company constructed train 3 and are also building train 4, due for commissioning by early 2005.
Train 5 will have capacity of 4.7 million tonnes a year (t/y), making it the world's largest LNG train. Completion is scheduled by the end of 2006, with first output due in early 2007. Chiyoda has completed front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies on the project. In April, Jebel Ali-based J Ray McDermott Middle Eastwon a contract to install new production facilities and to install a wellhead deck and associated pipelines to meet the upstream requirements of the fifth train (MEED 23:4:04). RasGas II is a 70:30 joint venture between Qatar Petroleumand the US' ExxonMobil Corporation.
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