Technip/Chiyoda Qatargas II Contract

Technip has been awarded a contract for the world's 2 largest Liquefied Natural Gas trains with the Qatar Liquefied Gas Company Limited. This contract will be executed by a joint venture created by Technip France and Chiyoda from Japan valued around USD $4 billion.

The joint venture partners will engineer and build Trains 4 and 5 at the Qatargas plant in Ras Laffan. Each train will produce an expected minimum of 7.8 million tons per annum of LNG, with Train 4 scheduled for start up in late 2007, and Train 5 approximately 9 months later.

Qatargas II will be selling LNG from these new trains into the UK and commitments have been made through affiliates of Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil for the necessary regasification in the UK. Qatargas II has also made pre-investment in the offshore field development, the LNG storage facilities in Qatar and the LNG transport carriers.

Both Technip and Chiyoda have a vast experience in Qatar and in LNG projects in particular. The Qatar Liquefied Gas Company Limited (“Qatargas II”) LNG plant site, where the 2 new LNG trains will be built, has been in operation since 1996.

The Qatargas three existing trains are currently producing over 8 million tons per annum of LNG. Two of these three trains, originally designed and built by Chiyoda, have already been successfully debottlenecked under a contract awarded to the Technip / Chiyoda joint venture in late 2001, with the debottlenecking of the third train scheduled for completion in spring 2005. In the early 1990's, Technip was also involved in the design and construction of the corresponding offshore processing platforms.

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Posted: 16/12/04

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