Qatar Issues Tender for LNG Facilities

Qatar Petroleum has issued an invitation to tender package for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) to expand its common lean LNG storage, and the loading and export facilities for its North Field Expansion (NFE) project, it said May 7. 

The tender package calls for three LNG storage tanks; compressors to recover tank boil off gas during storage and jetty boil off gas during LNG vessel loading; LNG rundown lines from the LNG trains to the LNG storage area; two additional LNG berths with an option for a third LNG berth; and loading and return lines from the LNG berths to the tanks.

Commenting on the announcement, Qatar Petroleum CEO Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi said: “The issuance of this tender package will culminate in the award of this EPC contract by February 2020.”

Qatar Petroleum is planning to expand production from 77mn mt/yr to 110mn mt/yr by 2024. Qatargas is entrusted with executing this project on behalf of Qatar Petroleum.