Rasgas Prepares 1st LNG Delivery To S. Korea.The Ras Laffan Gas Liquefaction liquefaction, change of a substance from the solid or the gaseous state to the liquid state. Since the different states of matter correspond to different amounts of energy of the molecules making up the substance, energy in the form of heat must either be supplied to Co. (Rasgas), Qatar's second LNG LNG (liquefied natural gas): see under natural gas. venture led by QGPC QGPC Qatar General Petroleum Corporation QGPC Qatar General Petroleum Company and Mobil, is to load the first LNG cargo to a tanker of South Korea's gas utility Kogas in August. This will come from Rasgas' first LNG train An LNG train is the term used to describe the liquification and purification facilities on an LNG plant. In order to make it practical and commercially viable to transport LNG from one country to another, its volume has to be greatly reduced. , with a capacity of over 3.2mt/y, which will be on stream in July. Offshore gas production for the Rasgas system began in May 1999. The first Rasgas train, built onshore at Ras Laffan, began receiving the gas later that month. Rasgas' second LNG train is expected to be on stream in March 2000. By then Rasgas' total production of condensates would reach 44,000 b/d and would be exported. |
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