Qatar to Spend on Flared Gas Capturing

27. Feb. 2010

Qatar's two liquefied natural gas (LNG) producers Qatargas and RasGas have approved a US$1 billion project to capture gas that is currently burnt off when ships load LNG, they said in a statement. The project would recover gas that was equivalent to around 600,000 tons of LNG, enough to power more than 40,000 homes, the companies said in the statement.

The gas is currently burnt at the LNG jetty where tankers load in the industrial port of Ras Laffan. The project would be completed in late 2013 to early 2014, and would reduce greenhouse gas emissions at Ras Laffan, the companies said. It would collect boiled off gas from LNG ships for use either as fuel, or for reprocessing at LNG plants. LNG plants chill natural gas for export on specially designed tankers. Qatar is the world's largest exporter of LNG.
[Reuters]