Q-Max LNG service provider
Qatar Petroleum has actually provided an “invitation to tender” for the appointment of the shipbuilding ability needed for the building of the 100 or even more LNG service provider newbuilds needed for its North Field Expansion (NFE) Project, which will certainly boost Qatar’s LNG manufacturing ability from 77 million loads per year (mta) to 110 mta beginning in 2024. The tender likewise covers delivery demands for the LNG quantities that will certainly be bought and also removed by Ocean LNG (a 70%/ 30% joint endeavor in between Qatar Petroleum and also ExxonMobil) from the Golden Pass LNG export job in the United States, which is presently incomplete and also is prepared to begin by 2024. The tender likewise consists of choices for substitute demands for Qatar’s existing LNG fleet.
“With this significant step, Qatar Petroleum embarks on another major LNG shipbuilding campaign expected to initially deliver 60 LNG carriers in support of the planned production expansion, with a potential to exceed 100 new LNG carriers over the next decade,” claimed Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Qatar’s Minister of State for Energy Affairs and also President & & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER ofQatar Petroleum “This important initiative reinforces Qatar Petroleum’s commitment to its global reputation as a safe and reliable LNG producer at all times and under all circumstances.”
Qatar Petroleum has actually left Qatargas to implement this LNG shipbuilding program on its part. It keeps in mind that “Qatargas has a well-known background of securely and also efficiently providing such significant tasks. This consists of the previous project that led to the building of 45 Q-Flex and also Q-Max ships, the globe’s biggest LNG providers, which make up the foundation of Qatar’s LNG service provider fleet today.”
