QatarEnergy has announced the award of contracts worth $10bn for the North Field South project.
The engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts, comprise two LNG mega trains with a combined capacity of 16 million tons per annum (MTPA).
The contract was signed by Minister of State for Energy Affairs, President and CEO of QatarEnergy, Saad Sherida Al Kaabi; President of Technip Energies Arnaud Pieton, and CCC Managing Director Qatar Oussama El Jerbi in the attendance of CEO of Qatargas Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and senior executives from QatarEnergy, Qatargas, Technip Energies and CCC.
QatarEnergy EPC contracts
The EPC contracts value is around $10bn, and its scope covers the construction of two mega LNG trains with a capacity of 8 MTPA each, with associated facilities for gas treatment, natural gas liquids recovery, as well as helium extraction and refining within Ras Laffan Industrial City.
In addition to the carbon capture and sequestration facilities, the environmental attributes of the NFS project also include importing a significant portion of the projects electrical power requirements from the grid in the form of renewable solar power, which will be generated at QatarEnergys solar power facilities currently under construction in Ras Laffan Industrial City.
It also includes a “jetty boil-off gas” recovery system, which will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The project will also conserve five million cubic meters of water per year by recovering 75 per cent of the plant’s tertiary water.
Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) emissions will also be minimised through the application of enhanced Dry Low NOx technology.
Minister Al Kaabi said: “QatarEnergy is proud to announce yet another significant milestone in the world’s largest LNG project, reinforcing our commitment to meeting the global demand for Natural Gas.
“The NFS project is a unique development that minimises its environmental footprint by design. It includes one of the largest CO2 capture and sequestration facilities and constitutes an important step towards achieving QatarEnergys target of more than 11 MTPA of CO2 capture and sequestration by 2035.”
NFS, together with the North Field East (NFE) project, will increase Qatar’s LNG production capacity from the current 77 MTPA to 126 MTPA.
QatarEnergy holds a 75 per cent interest in the NFS project and has already signed partnership agreements with TotalEnergies, Shell, and ConocoPhillips for the remaining 25 per cent.
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