Train 1 of Barzan Gas Project 95% Complete

RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) on Wednesday announced that Train 1 of its Barzan Gas Project (BGP) is 95 percent complete.

The company expects first gas production by first quarter of 2015. Construction work on Train 2 is also progressing well and RasGas expects it to be complete by middle of next year.

Once completed, the two processing trains will produce around 1.4 billion standard cubic feet a day (bcfd) of sales gas, the company said.

Combined with RasGas' other facilities production, the BGP is set to make RasGas one of the largest single gas processors in the world with a production capacity of 11 bcfd.

The construction of the project, which includes both offshore and onshore facilities, started in 2011.

A major portion of the Barzan gas production will be used by the power and water generation sectors, enabling them to utilise clean-burning `natural gas to support several of Qatar's new projects that are underway, RasGas said.

RasGas is a Qatari joint stock company established in 2001 by Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil RasGas Inc.