Qatargas chief planning and risk officer Jassim Abdulla al-Mohannadi at the executive plenary session of the SPE conference.
Qatargas is supporting and participating in the “7th SPE Middle East Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainable Development Conference & Exhibition” being held under the patronage of HE Minister of Energy and Industry Dr Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada at the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC).
Organised by the Society of Petroleum Engineers in the Middle East, the event is the first of its kind to include sustainable development as one of the core discussion topics.
The conference is addressing a wide range of topics, including social responsibility, sustainable development, risk management, environmental issues, health hazard management, behaviour-based safety, land transportation safety, workforce welfare, and security issues.
At the executive plenary session, Qatargas chief planning and risk officer Jassim Abdulla al-Mohannadi delivered a speech on “Protecting People, Environment, Asset, and Reputation – Are We Prepared?”
Al-Mohannadi said the numerous steps Qatargas has taken to improve environmental safety, performance, systems, and plans to mitigate the company’s risk management challenges.
His speech highlighted the progress Qatargas has made in improving risk management processes throughout the organisation.
He also stressed the challenges that still remain in identifying risks at the operational level and how these could be addressed through the simultaneous focus on people, encouraging risk-aware behaviour, improved processes, and application of technology.
Aside from al-Mohannadi, Qatargas is also presenting three papers at the conference.
Bashir Mirza, project manager of Qatargas’ Jetty Boil-off Gas Project, is presenting a paper entitled “Industry Leading Safety Performance While Building One of the World’s Largest Environmental Projects,” which discusses how the project achieved more than 22mn man-hours spread over three years, without a single lost time accident.
Khalifa Ahmed al-Sulaiti, Environmental Affairs Division manager and Farhan Khan, senior environmental analyst will be presenting a paper on the Qatargas’ Pulse Chlorination System, which was successfully implemented in Qatargas’ cooling seawater system.
The paper describes how the Pulse Chlorination System helps Qatargas to minimise environmental impact on marine life and meet statutory regulations.
Tawfeeq Hamad, head of safety - shutdowns and projects, will present a paper entitled “The Case for a Case,” which details how Qatargas developed SHE (safety, health and environment) cases for its assets. A SHE case is a living document detailing the hazards associated with the facility and the control measures in place to manage these hazards.
Qatar not a gas alternative to Russia, says al-Sada
Qatar has no plans to pitch in as an alternative supplier of gas as Europe seeks to reduce its reliance on Russian gas, HE Minister of Energy and Industry Dr Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada told a German newspaper yesterday. “Qatar doesn’t see itself as an alternative to other producers and exporters. We producers complement each other,” al-Sada told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily.
Qatar is the world’s largest producer and exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
“We know that energy is not just a commercial product but a very strategic one and we know what responsibility a producer therefore has,” he added.
The European Union is due to hold a fresh round of talks with Russia and Ukraine in Berlin on Friday in a bid to settle an ongoing dispute over gas deliveries.
Europe gets more than 30% of its gas from Russia, with half of that transiting through Ukraine, but in June Moscow cut off supplies intended for Kiev amid a bitter price dispute.
For now, gas is continuing to flow as normal through Ukraine into the EU, but Russia has warned there was a high risk of disruption of deliveries to Europe this winter as international tensions remain high over the Ukraine crisis.
Europe does not have the infrastructure to accept LNG in major quantities.
