North Gas Field

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Summary Information

  • Operator: Qatar Petroleum
  • Country: Qatar
  • Location: Persian Gulf
  • Production start: 1991
  • Partners:
  • Type: Gas
  • Estimated Reserves: total recoverable gas of more than 900 trillion standard cubic feet (tscf)
  • Production Volume:

Description

  • One half of the world's largest gas fields, it feeds all of Qatar's LNG facilities and both GTL plants
  • It covers an area of 6,000 square kilometers, equivalent to about half the land area of the State of Qatar.
  • The Field has been developed over the years through a number of projects
    • Ras Gas Train 1 and 2 Project
    • Ras Gas Train 3 Project
    • Ras Gas Train 4 Project
    • Ras Gas Train 5 Project
    • Ras Gas Train 6 and 7 Project
    • Qatargas 1 Ras Laffan LNG Terminal
    • QatarGas 2 Project
    • QatarGas 3 Project
    • QatarGas 4 Project
    • Al Khaleej Gas Project

Contractors

  • JGC: design, procurement, construction and commissioning services for a large-scale gas processing plant

History

  • 1996 - The first cargo of condensate was sold from the field
  • 2004 - JGC awarded gas processing plant contract
  • 2010 - JGC Corporation contract award for the gas processing facilities for the Barzan Onshore Project

Geology

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