Qatargas Starts $1 bn Gas Recovery Project at Ras Laffan

Qatargas on Sunday announced the start-up of the Jetty Boil-off Gas Recovery (JBOG) project in Ras Laffan Industrial City. 

This $1bn environmental project is designed to eliminate flaring at the LNG terminal.

The main shareholders of the JBOG project are Qatar Petroleum, ExxonMobil, Total, ConocoPhillips and Shell, while the facilities are operated by Qatargas and RasGas, the two largest LNG producers in the world.

The JBOG facilities started up successfully during the first week of October, Qatargas said adding around 100 million standard cubic feet per day of natural gas which used to be burnt and wasted during LNG ship loading is now being recovered and utilized in the LNG production plants as fuel. 

According to the company, over a period of 30 years the JBOG project will save nearly one trillion cubic feet of gas for Qatar.

The construction of the project started in Ras Laffan City in mid-2011.