Sheikh Khalid and senior Qatargas officials and employees at the company’s recent Town Hall meeting.

LNG major Qatargas was able to maintain “strong performance” on unit cost at $11.1 per tonne in 2015, the company revealed at its recent 17th annual Town Hall meetings.
The company achieved an “improved reliability rate” of 98.4%, greenhouse gas emissions down to 25.6%, and reduction of losses to 0.8% of weight of intake.  
The company has set its future vision to lead the industry in safety, health and environmental performance; a high calibre workforce; efficient and reliable operations; customer satisfaction; and financial performance, a presentation of Qatargas’ achievements in 2015 by the Corporate Planning Department showed.
Qatargas CEO Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa al-Thani and members of the company’s management leadership team attended the event held over two days —  one at the Al Khor Community and the second one at Qatargas’ head office in Doha. Touching on the company’s other achievements, it was mentioned that in January, Qatargas delivered the first LNG cargo to Thailand under a long-term sales and purchase agreement (SPA).
Also this year, Qatargas delivered two commissioning LNG cargoes to Pakistan and Jordan in March and May respectively. In April, HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani officially inaugurated the Jetty Boil-Off Gas Recovery (JBOG) Project in Ras Laffan. The biggest project of its kind and one of the largest environmental investments in the world, the JBOG Project represented a significant milestone in Qatar’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions from its LNG industry.  
The JBOG Project is part of the Common Facilities Projects at Ras Laffan Industrial City and is led and operated by Qatargas on behalf of Qatar Petroleum and RasGas.  It is an environmental project to recover the gas flared during LNG loading at the six LNG berths in Ras Laffan Port.
In October, the JBOG facility achieved a major milestone by recovering jetty boil of gas from the 1,000th LNG ship. Since operations started in October 2014, the JBOG facility has safely recovered approximately 535,000 metric tonnes of LNG, which is enough to power as many as 300,000 homes.
Again in April this year, marking yet another significant milestone for Qatar’s LNG industry, the 5,000th LNG cargo from the Common LNG Storage and Loading Asset in Ras Laffan Industrial City was loaded on board the Q-Flex vessel ‘Al Karaana’ at Ras Laffan port.
In September, for the first time in the Middle East and as the first industrial fire and rescue services in the world, the Emergency Management Services (EMS) and Security Department at Qatargas was awarded the distinguished “Accredited agency” status by the US-based Centre for Public Safety Excellence (CPSE) after successfully meeting the rigorous criteria set by the CPSE’s Accreditation Commission in the areas of continuous quality improvement and enhancement of service delivery.
In October 2015, charterers, Qatargas and RasGas, and their shareholders announced the successful commissioning of a gas burning M-type electronically controlled gas injection (ME-GI) system during the second phase of gas trials on the chartered Q-Max vessel — ‘Rasheeda’.
The project, sponsored by Qatar Petroleum in anticipation of global environmental legislation, is reported to have cost its stakeholders in excess of $30mn.
In the same month, Qatar Petroleum President, CEO and Qatargas chairman Saad Sherida al-Kaabi, accompanied by Sheikh Khalid and senior officials from Qatar Petroleum and Qatargas, visited Japan and held talks with senior executives of major Japanese corporations.
The meetings and discussions focused on various aspects of existing and future cooperation between Japanese clients and partner companies and Qatar Petroleum and its companies, particularly in the LNG trade.
In November, for the second consecutive year, Qatargas’ Shipping Department won two “prestigious” awards from the British Safety Council for its “commitment to achieving excellent standards” of health, safety and environmental management.