QatarEnergy awards North Field East project EPC contract

QatarEnergy has let an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for the North Field Expansion project.

A joint venture between Técnicas Reunidas SA (TR) and Wison Engineering has been selected as EPC contractor and was awarded a lump-sum contract for the expansion of the sulfur handling, storage, and loading infrastructure within Ras Laffan Industrial City. The TR-Wison joint venture will manage the detailed engineering work from Qatar.

The infrastructure will support the North Field East (NFE) LNG expansion project’s four new LNG trains, which are scheduled to start by yearend 2025. The contract will include an option for further expansion to support sulfur production for the two additional LNG trains of the North Field South (NFS) project, and infrastructure to support future additional LNG trains.

Sulfur produced as a byproduct of the gas treatment process required prior to the production of LNG is used in the production of fertilizers and as a base material for intermediary chemicals used in the manufacturing of industrial and household products.

With the execution of the EPC contract, the only remaining major EPC contract for the delivery of the North Field Expansion project, comprising NFE and NFS projects, is the EPC contract for NFS’s two onshore processing and liquefaction trains, which is expected to be awarded by end 2022.

When completed, the NFE and NFS projects will increase Qatar’s LNG production capacity to 126 million tpy by 2027 from the current 77 million tpy.