(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Qatar, the world's biggest producer of liquefied natural gas, is gathering even more gas with a $1bn plant that is recovering what used to be wasted fuel.
Since the plant started in October in Ras Laffan Industrial City north of Doha, it has recovered gas from over 500 ships.
"We don't have an expectation of an economic return from the project, but we will benefit from the recovered gas," Saad Sherida al-Kaabi, Qatar Petroleum's chief executive officer, said yesterday at an inauguration ceremony for the project.
The JBOG has capacity to produce about 100mn cubic feet of natural gas a day, or the equivalent of 600,000 tonnes a year of LNG, making it the world's biggest plant of its kind. Gas that used to be burned off or lost through evaporation when fuel was loaded on ships is instead being sent to Qatar's 14 LNG production plants, which had a combined output of about 77mn tonnes last year.
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