Qatargas award contract to Fluor

Qatargas, Qatar's liquefied natural gas (LNG) producer has awarded US Fluor Corp a deal on a US$1 billion project to capture gas burnt off when ships load LNG.

The project at Qatar's industrial port of Ras Laffan 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 the specially designed tankers, Qatargas said in a statement.

Arabian Business state that Qatargas declined to reveal the value of the contract.

Qatargas has awarded the contract on behalf of the owners of the Jetty Boil-Off Gas Recovery Project: the four Qatargas and three RasGas companies that individually own one or more of the existing 14 LNG trains at Ras Laffan.

100 Fluor personnel

The detailed design and procurement services will be carried out at Fluor's offices in Sugar Land, Texas, USA, where over 100 Fluor personnel will work on this project. Fluor will also have a team working in Ras Laffan to support the construction, commissioning and start-up phases of the project.

The project design is based on collection of the LNG boil-off gas from the LNG carriers and transfer of this gas to a Central Compression Area via large diameter stainless steel pipelines. At the Central Compression Area, the gas will be compressed and sent to the LNG trains primarily for use as fuel gas.

The project would recover gas that was equivalent to around 600,000 tonnes of LNG, enough to power more than 40,000 homes, the company said in February. The gas is currently burnt at the LNG jetty where tankers load atRas Laffan.

The project would be completed in late 2013 to early 2014 and would reduce greenhouse gas emissions at Ras Laffan, the company said.

 

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