By the OGJ Online Staff
HOUSTON, Oct. 12 -- Qatar Liquefied Gas Co. gave a Technip and Chiyoda joint venture a 100 million euro contract to expand the LNG facility at Ras Laffan on the northeast coast of Qatar.
They will conduct detailed engineering, procurement, and construction for the debottlenecking of three liquefied natural gas trains.
The services and works mainly involve replacing or upgrading some of the key process equipment such as compressors and turbines in order to expand the capacity of each of the trains from 2 to 3 million tons/year. Work will be executed during four shutdowns scheduled between 2002 and 2005, the duration of which will be limited to about 1 month each.
A project team headquartered in Paris with representatives of both engineering firms will head the work under a single integrated project team pooling the expertise of both partners in the joint venture. The engineering center will be located in Paris, France.
Daniel Valot, Technip chairman and CEO, said, "This challenging project will be one of the biggest LNG capacity increases in the world."