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Dolphin Energy produces first gas in Qatar
New Processing Plant at Ras Laffan Under Test
Dolphin Energy 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 Dolphin Energy’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 UAE through the company’s 48 inch subsea export pipeline. This runs some 364 kilometers from Qatar to Dolphin’s Receiving Facilities at Taweelah in Abu Dhabi. From Taweelah, the gas will be distributed by landline to Dolphin customers.
Dolphin Energy Limited
Dolphin Energy Limited was created to develop substantial energy projects throughout the GCC. Its objective is to create long-term economic wealth and new business opportunities for GCC citizens, far into the future. Dolphin Energy’s major strategic initiative, the Dolphin Project, involves the production and processing of natural gas from Qatar’s North Field, and transportation of the dry gas by sub-sea pipeline across joint UAE-Qatari waters to the UAE, beginning in 2006.
Dolphin Energy’s first initiative, the Al Ain to Fujairah Pipeline, came on stream in January 2004.The pipeline supplies the Fujairah Water and Power Plant on the UAE’s East Coast – initially with natural gas from Oman, and subsequently with Dolphin gas from Qatar. In May 2005, Dolphin began to supply natural gas to the UAE Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. The gas is being delivered via a tie-in near Qidfa between Dolphin’s Al Ain - Fujairah pipeline and the existing Emarat gas pipeline network.
Dolphin Energy is owned 51 percent by Mubadala Development Company, on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi – and 24.5 percent each by Total of France and Occidental Petroleum of the USA.
Detailed information about Dolphin Energy can be found on www.dolphinenergy.com
For further information contact:
Mirna Hijazi
Corporate Communications Manager
Tel +971 2 6995500
Fax +971 2 6995578