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Qatar Begins Work on Major Gas Field Expansion Project

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, has laid the foundation stone of the North Field expansion project.

The project aims to raise the country’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) production capacity from the current 77 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) to 126 MTPA by 2026.

It comprises six mega trains, each with a production capacity of eight MTPA of LNG, four of which are part of the North Field East expansion project, and two are part of the North Field South expansion project, contributing a total of 48 MTPA to the global LNG supplies.

The project’s groundbreaking ceremony was held at Ras Laffan Industrial City.

State-owned QatarEnergy has partnered in this global project with TotalEnergies, Shell, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Eni, Sinopec, and CNPC, whose contributions will play a pivotal role in ensuring the project’s success and achieving its goals by producing LNG that is the best in the world in terms of safety, reliability, and carbon footprint.

In addition to LNG, the project will produce 6,500 tonnes per day of ethane gas, which will be used as feedstock in the local petrochemical industries.

The project will also produce about 200,000 barrels per day of liquefied petroleum gas (propane and butane), and about 450,000 barrels per day of condensates, in addition to large quantities of helium and pure sulfur.

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