State producer adds fourth liquefaction train to gas project

27 September 2018
Upon completion, the project will increase company’s LNG production to 110 million t/y

State-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP) has announced it will be increasing the capacity of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) expansion project, which was announced in 2017, by adding a fourth liquefaction train.

When the project is completed, QP’s LNG production capacity will reach 110 million tonnes a year (t/y), representing an increase of around 43 per cent from its current production capacity of 77 million t/y, QP said in a statement.

QP did not say when the project would be completed and commissioned, or what the cost of the project would be.

With the addition of the fourth train, the new project will produce about 32 million t/y of LNG, 4,000 tonnes a day (t/d) of ethane, 260,000 barrels a day of condensate, and 11,000 t/d of LPG, in addition to approximately 20 t/d of pure helium.

In its statement QP said it is making progress with the production expansion project on the offshore North Field, with the front-end engineering and design (feed) works of the onshore facilities being presently executed by Japan’s Chiyoda Corporation.

The engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for the offshore wellhead jackets is expected to be awarded before the end of the year, and development drilling activities are expected to commence shortly after that, QP said.

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