Qatar Petroleum will solicit tenders for engineering, procurement, and construction of onshore facilities in its expansion of natural gas liquefaction capacity later this month, according to a project report by Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, minister of state for energy affairs and QP president and chief executive officer.
Al-Kaabi told the International Conference & Exhibition on Liquefied National Gas in Shanghai on Apr. 2 that Chiyoda Corp. would complete front-end engineering and design of onshore facilities “in the next few days.”
QP is expanding liquefaction capacity at Ras Laffan Industrial City to 110 million tonnes/year from 77 million tpy through the addition of four trains with capacities of 8 million tpy each (OGJ Online, Sept. 26, 2018).
A joint venture of Consolidated Contractors Co. and Teyseer Trading & Contracting Co. has the contract for early site works.
Al-Kaabi said QP has let a contract to McDermott for fabrication and installation of offshore jackets and is in the tendering phase for eight rigs for development drilling.
It will solicit tenders for LNG ship construction slots “in a few weeks,” he said.
