Halul Island in Qatar
Qatar carries on regardless
Nearly two years after Saudi Arabia and the UAE imposed an economic and political boycott on Qatar, the Gulf state is pressing on with LNG expansion plans
Qatar Petroleum (QP) in April asked three joint ventures to bid for the main engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for four mega-LNG trains, each with 8.8mn t/y capacity, and related facilities. QP announced in 2017, after the boycott was imposed, that it planned to increase LNG output capacity from 77mn t/y to 100mn t/y, by producing more gas from the vast offshore North field. The following year it unveiled even more ambitious plans—to target capacity of 110mn t/y. And despite the fact that there is no end to the political dispute that has destroyed the credibility of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Qatar is not looking back. The consortiums competing for the EPC awards ar
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