Rasgas II awards onshore EPC contract for Train 5 at Ras Laffan

Ras Laffan LNG Co. Ltd. II (RasGas II) awarded a contract to a joint venture of Yokohama-based Chiyoda Corp. and Snamprogetti & Co. WLL, Milan, for the onshore engineering, procurement, and construction of its liquefaction Train 5 at Ras Laffan Industrial City in Qatar.

July 7, 2004

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By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, July 6 -- Ras Laffan LNG Co. Ltd. II (RasGas II) has awarded a contract to a joint venture of Yokohama-based Chiyoda Corp. and Snamprogetti & Co. WLL, Milan, for the onshore engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of its liquefaction Train 5 at Ras Laffan Industrial City in Qatar.

The JV will construct the world-scale, 4.7 million tonne/year LNG liquefaction train and facilities to extract natural gas liquids from the inlet gas stream, completing it by yearend 2006 for deliveries to begin in first quarter 2007.

Train 5 will be built adjacent Train 4, with startup scheduled for mid-2007. Qatar's North field, which has proven natural gas reserves exceeding 900 tcf, will provide feed gas for the unit.

Rasgas II plans to increase LNG exports from Qatar to more than 60 million tonnes/year by end of the decade.

RasGas II awarded the offshore EPC contract earlier this year to J. Ray McDermott Eastern Hemisphere Ltd. (OGJ Online, Apr. 20, 2004), which will construct and install a wellhead platform and pipeline to produce and transport 800 MMscfd of gas.

Rasgas II, a joint venture of Qatar Petroleum 70% and ExxonMobil subsidiary ExxonMobil RasGas Inc. 30%, has sale and purchase agreements under development with European customers.

In related news, Qatar Petroleum's Qatar Terminal Ltd. and ExxonMobil unit Zeebrugge LNG Trading Co. Ltd. Wednesday announced an agreement to supply Fluxys SA 3.5 million tonnes/year of LNG at Fluxy LNG's Zeebrugge, Belgium LNG terminal, beginning in 2007. This accord, the first long-term agreement Qatar Petroleum has signed with an existing terminal operator, will enable Fluxys to expand its terminal capacity to 7 million tonnes/year. Fluxys is a member of the Paris-based Suez Group.