By Pratap John/Chief Business Reporter
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Barzan Gas Project, which will be key to meeting Qatar’s future energy needs, has completed 50% of work and is scheduled to achieve Train 1 start up in 2014.
Barzan project activities, 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, said RasGas Venture Group manager Nafez A Bseiso.
He was speaking after receiving a high-level QP delegation that visited the project site at Ras Laffan recently.
The delegation, which toured the site stretching over 3sq km, witnessed the “remarkable achievements” that have been made 22 months into the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) phase of the project.
“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 around 11bn standard cubic feet per day (the equivalent of almost 2mn barrels of oil), making RasGas one of the largest single gas processors in the world,” Bseiso said.
“A construction workforce of more than 19,000 comprising of around 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.
He said that quality played a critical role in all aspects of the execution of Barzan Gas project, and it was important to ensure that every step, from engineering design, procurement, construction, completion and handover, was done to the highest international standards.
“Barzan project has the highest number of Qataris working in almost every key discipline on a RasGas single project, thus ensuring that maximum exposure and experience is harvested by national graduates to develop their careers and underpin the role of the future generation of Qatari professionals in the indigenous energy industry.” Bseiso said.
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).
