Qatar Petroleum, ExxonMobil award FEED contracts for Qatargas II

July 11, 2003
Qatar Petroleum Co. and Exxon Mobil Corp. have awarded contracts for onshore Qatargas II LNG expansion project facilities to Chiyoda Corp., Yokohama, for the main front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase and to M.W. Kellogg Ltd.for a receiving terminal. The offshore FEED contract will be awarded later this year.

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, July 11 -- Qatar Petroleum Co. and Exxon Mobil Corp. have awarded contracts for onshore Qatargas II LNG expansion project facilities to Chiyoda Corp., Yokohama, for the main front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase and to M.W. Kellogg Ltd.for a receiving terminal. The offshore FEED contract will be awarded later this year.

Onshore facilities will be constructed at the existing Qatargas LNG plant, which has been operating since 1996 and where three existing trains produce more than 8 million tonnes/year of LNG.

Qatargas II, a joint project of Qatar Petroleum 70% and ExxonMobil 30%, will include offshore development of new blocks in Qatar's giant North field, the world's largest onshore liquefaction trains—each producing 7.8 million tonnes/year of LNG—a fleet of large LNG carriers, and terminal receiving and regasification facilities. Qatar Petroleum said LNG exports from the facility are expected to exceed 45 million tonnes/year by 2010.

Gas deliveries, targeted for sale in the UK and North Europe, will commence from the first train in late 2007.

Since signing Heads of Agreement in June 2002, the companies jointly have completed feasibility studies and pre-FEED work for all project elements.