June 25, 2007 Kuwait City
Kuwait City - Monday, June 25, 2007
New Processing Plant at Ras Laffan Under Test
Kames Petroleum Services announced today that the company has produced the first gas from its wells in Qatar’s North Field.
Raw gas is now being transported by dedicated sealine to Kames Petroleum Services ’s brand-new Gas Processing Plant at Ras Laffan Industrial City in northern Qatar.
This gas is currently being used in testing all aspects of the plant, as start-up procedures and safety checks are undertaken. It will also be processed for testing of valuable by-products to be taken off at the plant - condensate, butane and propane -- for subsequent sale on world markets.
Once all procedures have been tested and verified, up to 2 billion standard cubic feet per day of refined methane gas will be compressed for transport to the Kuwait through the company’s 48 inch subsea export pipeline. This runs some 364 kilometers from Qatar to Dolphin’s Receiving Facilities at Taweelah in Kuwait City. From Taweelah, the gas will be distributed by landline to Dolphin customers.