Qatar opens USD 1 billion JBOG project

Qatar’s Prime Minister Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani officially inaugurated the Jetty Boil-Off Gas Recovery (JBOG) project in Ras Laffan Industrial City on Tuesday.

The US$1 billion JBOG project is part of the Common Facilities Projects at RLIC and it is led and operated by Qatargas on behalf of Qatar Petroleum and RasGas.

It is an environmental project to recover the gas flared during liquefied natural gas loading at the six LNG berths in Ras Laffan Port, Qatargas said in a statement.

According to the statement, the JBOG project will result in a 90% reduction in flaring at the six LNG loading berths at Ras Laffan, equivalent to annual Green House Gas (GHG) savings of 1.6 million tonnes of CO2. The project will help recover 29 billion standard cubic feet (bscf) of gas per year which is enough gas to produce 750 MW of power or to power 300,000 homes.

Ras Laffan is the biggest LNG export terminal in the world and the only facility where multiple LNG ships can be loaded simultaneously.

Qatargas partnered with GE to build the first model of the world’s largest low pressure compressors for the JBOG project, the statement said.

Since the start of the first recovery of jetty boil-off gas in October 2014, jetty boil-off gas has been recovered from over 500 ships.

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