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O & G overview
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Remarkable safety milestone recorded
Barzan Project is currently utilising more than
In Figures:
Rasgas projects
21,000
workers
Helium 2 Project peaked at
1,300
workers
asGas Company Limited (RasGas) recently celebrated a major milestone with the successful completion of 30 million man-hours with no Lost Time Incident (LTI). The company’s Venture Group, which manages several huge projects ranging from the Barzan Project to the Helium 2 Project, honoured its employees and contractors who made this achievement possible at a celebration in Doha. “Achieving 30 million man-hours without an LTI is an outstanding achievement, especially given the size and pace of the megaprojects that this team is executing. Our employees, contractors and workers, many from different parts of the world, have worked tirelessly to ensure that we have an injury-free workplace. Today we celebrate this focus on excellence in safety and we will renew our commitment to sustaining an injury-free workplace as we continue to execute our projects reliably and with integrity,” said Hamad Rashid AlMohannadi, Managing Director, RasGas.
Tasweeq to supply 20 kbd of condensate to ENOC
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mirates National Oil Company (ENOC) has signed a contract with the Qatar International Petroleum Marketing Company Ltd (Tasweeq) for the supply of 20 kbd (thousand barrels per day) of condensate for its Jebel Ali refinery. The annual contract underlines the commitment of ENOC to explore new condensate suppliers to ensure a steady supply of refined products and meet the growing domestic requirement for fuel products in Dubai. The contract was signed between Tayyeb Al-Mulla, Managing Director Supply, Trading and Processing, ENOC, and Saad Abdulla Al-Kuwari, Chief Executive Officer of Tasweeq. Tayyeb Al-Mulla said: “ENOC and Tasweeq are long-term partners, with ENOC being the first to off-take condensate from the Qatari organisation during the start of the Dolphin and North Field projects in 2007. Building on these relations, ENOC has been regularly receiving condensate from Tasweeq to partially meet the needs of its condensate splitter in the UAE.”
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Rasgas and CMUQ agree to collaborate AN MOU paving the way for mutually beneficial initiatives and projects in the future was signed by Hamad Rashid Al-Mohannadi, RasGas Managing Director, and Ilker Baybars, Dean and Chief Executive Officer of CMUQ.
Gazprom inaugurated HE Dr. Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry and Chairman and Managing Director of qatar petroleum, inaugurated Gazprom’s representative office in Doha last month. The opening ceremony was attended by Dr Viktor Zubkov, Special Presidential Representative for cooperation with the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) and Chairman of Gazprom Board of Directors; Russian Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Fedorov; the first GECF Secretary-General, Leonid Bokhanovskiy; the Charge d’Affaires of the Russian Federation in Qatar, Dmitry Trofimov; and the Head of Gazprom’s International Business Department, Pavel Oderov.