Qatar’s LNG: a brief overview 27, May 2009
Posted by thegulfblog.com in Iran, LNG, Qatar.Tags: Liquified Natural Gas, LNG, North Field, Qatar, South Pars
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Here are a few salient facts about Qatar’s LNG production today and in the future.
Qatar produces:
– 33 million tonnes per year of LNG in 2008
– 60 million tonnes per year of LNG in 2009
– 70 million tonnes per year of LNG by 2012
– This 2012 target will amount to roughly 30% of the world’s LNG needs
– This will make them far and away a proportional bigger supplier of LNG than Saudi Arabia is of oil who supply around 12-13%
– One full cargo of the largest Qatari tanker is sufficient to heat every UK home for a day
– Qatar shares the world’s largest gas field with Iran – some 6000 square meters
– Current estimates suggest that it holds around 900 trillion cubic feet of gas
– It is expected to last for more than 100 years
– Qatar Petroleum are believed to have invested around £40billion in oil and gas in 2008-2010 alone
Sources:
Nadim Kawach © Emirates Business 24/7 2009
LNGPEDIA is an excellent aggregation source for LNG related topics.
The BP statsitical review is an unbeatable source for energy data.
‘Adding Value in the LNG Supply Chain‘ Bjorn Moller. ONS Conference. Stavanger, August 24, 2006
Qatar articles 19, May 2009
Posted by thegulfblog.com in Qatar.Tags: Doha Centre for Media Freedom, Doha Decleration, Japanese school doha, LNG, MEED, North Field, Qatar, Robert Ménard, tanks
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Some recent articles on Qatar:
- LNG supply to be mopped up by thirsty China, according to Qatar’s Energy Minister.
- A good summary article of the LNG UK-Qatar relationship which will, among other things, reduce Russia’s strangle-hold on European gas supplies.
- A far more detailed overview of Qatar’s LNG in MEED.
- Germany are to sell main battle tanks to Qatar.
- ‘The Doha Deceleration’ – Qatar’s ‘Doha Centre for Media Freedom’ and UNESCO have made something of a (relatively) bombastic statement on the importance of media freedoms.
- The opening of a Japanese school in Doha.
- A very good Economist article on the limits of freedom facing Qatar’s ‘Doha Centre for Media Freedom’. It focuses on its controversial French director, Robert Ménard, and his apparent desire to either poke, prod and push the powers that be in Qatar into sacking him or to really test the boundaries of Qatar’s press freedom.
- Qatar set to reopen its North Field after a long moratorium.
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