Qatar’s RasGas Starts Producing LNG From Train 7

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Qatar’s Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Co., a venture between state-controlled Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil Corp., started output from its last production unit, Chief Executive Officer Hamad Rashid al-Mohannadi said.

“We are currently producing from” train 7, al-Mohannadi said at a press conference in Doha today. “We will ramp up production” and LNG trains typically take two to three months to reach full output capacity, he said.

Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas, or RasGas, and Qatar Liquefied Gas Co. are scheduled to start three of the world’s largest LNG units this year, raising the Gulf emirate’s production capacity to 77 million tons from 54 million tons. Qatar is the world’s biggest producer of LNG, gas that’s been cooled to a liquid for transport by tanker to markets not connected by pipeline.