Qatar to Launch Gas Recovery Project

Qatar will commission an environmental project to recover gas currently being flared during LNG ship loading at Ras Laffan Port in next few months, says Gulf Times newspaper.

The $800mn Jetty Boil-off Gas Recovery (JBOG) project, initiated by Qatar Petroleum, is one of the biggest environmental investments for LNG boil-off recovery in the world, says Minister of Energy and Industry Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada.

The project is expected to be commissioned in the third quarter of 2014, it was announced Friday, according to Gulf Times. 

The project will recover and collect boiled-off gas from LNG ships during loading and the gas will then be compressed at a central facility.

“The huge investment in JBOG by Qatar Petroleum and its partners will reduce the carbon footprint of the 77mn tonnes per year of LNG production facilities to the minimum, immensely contributing to the achievement of our goals,” Gulf Times quotes al-Sada as saying.

The compressed gas obtained from the JBOG Project is planned to be utilised by existing LNG assets of organisations such as Qatargas and RasGas either as feedstock to LNG trains or as fuel gas.

The project, when fully operational, will recover the equivalent of about 0.6mn tonnes of LNG per year, which is sufficient natural gas to power more than 300,000 homes, the newspaper says.