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RasGas' former corporate headquarters in West Bay, Doha pictured in 2011. Ras Laffan LNG, commonly known as RasGas, was the name of one of the two initial LNG projects in Qatar, which were founded in and together with the Ras Laffan Industrial Complex in the 1990s.
Ras Laffan Industrial City (Arabic: راس لفان, romanized: Ra’s Lafān) is a Qatari industrial hub located 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Doha. It is administered by QatarEnergy. Ras Laffan Industrial City is Qatar's main site for production of liquefied natural gas and gas-to-liquid.
In 2013 the Ras Laffan Helium 2 plant was inaugurated and produced its first helium that same year. The plant is the largest of its kind in the world and made Qatar the world's largest helium exporter. [17] [57] [58] In 2014 the construction for Laffan Refinery 2 began and the refinery delivered the first Diesel Hydrotreater (DHT).
Ras Girtas Power Company (also known as Ras Laffan C power and desalination plant) is a power generation and water desalination plant located in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has installed capacity of 2,730 MW, which include eight gas turbines and four steam turbines by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries . [ 3 ]
Qatar's LNG company called QatarEnergy LNG is located in the Ras Laffan Industrial Port on the coast of Persian Gulf. [47] Since 1997, Qatar has been exporting LNG from the North Field. In 2006, Qatar surpassed Indonesia as the world's largest LNG exporter.
The offshore pipeline from Ras Laffan to Taweelah in the UAE (export pipeline) was designed by Saipem, an Italian contractor for the oil and gas industry, and the pipes were supplied by Mitsui of Japan. The 48-inch (1,200 mm) pipeline has capacity of 90.6 billion cubic metres (3.20 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas per year. [3]
Ras Abu Fontas A Ras Abu Fontas: 626 1977,1993,1997 [4] Ras Abu Fontas B Ras Abu Fontas: 609 [5] or 625 [6] 1995-1996 Ras Laffan A Ras Laffan Industrial City: 756 2003 [7] Ras Laffan B Ras Laffan Industrial City: 1025 2006–2008 [8] Ras Laffan C: Ras Laffan Industrial City: 2730 2010–2011 [9] Saliyah Al Sailiya: 134 1983 [6] [10]
The main source of cargoes to the terminal is from trains No. 4 and 5 of the Qatargas 2 project in Ras Laffan, Qatar. These are jointly owned by Qatar Petrolium and ExxonMobil. The initial GSPA signed in 2005 was for 15.6 million tonnes per year, but this was reduced to 10.4 million tonnes per year in 2009 when TotalEnergies acquired a 16.7 ...