A delegation of senior management from Qatar Petroleum (QP) recently visited the construction site of Barzan Gas Project in Ras Laffan. Overall progress of this key project, critical to meeting Qatar’s future energy needs, has recently surpassed 50 percent as the gas processing facilities are now taking shape.
The QP delegation included Mohamed Al Marri, Manager, Oil and Gas Surface Development, Tamim Attar, Manager, Project Evaluation and Planning, Ahmad Al-Amoodi, Assistant Manager, Common Facilities, and Abdulrahman Al Braik, Assistant Manager, Transmission and District Engineering. Nafez A Bseiso, Venture Group Manager, RasGas Company Limited (RasGas), and management representatives from the Venture Group accompanied the delegation.
The delegation, which toured the entire site stretching over three square kilometres, witnessed the remarkable achievements that have been made 22 months into the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) phase of the project.
Bseiso said the Barzan Gas Project both in Qatar and the offshore facilities being built in Ulsan, South Korea, are currently on plan both in terms of cost and schedule to achieve start-up of Train 1 in 2014.
“When the two new gas processing trains are in operation in 2014 and 2015 respectively, they will combine with other RasGas facilities (LNG and pipeline sales gas) to produce a staggering total production capacity of around 11 billion standard cubic feet per day (the equivalent of almost two million barrels of oil), making RasGas one of the largest single gas processors in the world,” he said.
“A construction workforce of over 19,000 comprising of more than 50 nationalities has contributed in achieving world class safety performance and industry leading results, including a total recordable incident rate of 0.05 and lost time incident rate of 0.01 during the project,” said Bseiso.
The Peninsula
