Qatargas 4 LNG Start Up Delayed By at Least One Year, BASF Says
Qatar, the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, will probably delay the start of their Qatargas 4 LNG project by at least a year until 2011, an official working on the project said.
“Qatargas 4 won’t be ready before 2011 or 2012,” Nawid Kashani-Shirazi, senior process manager of gas treatment at BASF SE, which is handling process technology licensing for parts of the plant, said in an interview in Abu Dhabi yesterday.
Qatar is building a series of gas export facilities, the biggest of their kind, that are all suffering delays as the nation considers the demands on its gas fields and the cost of building complex projects simultaneously.
“Qatargas 2 has been in commissioning phase for the past two months, and the first drop of LNG is expected this month, and Qatargas 3 is planned to start sometime in the first half of next year,” Kashani-Shirazi said, while attending The Energy Exchange’s Gas Arabia conference.
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