Qatar, ExxonMobil launch $10 billion Barzan gas project

摘要

0 Dubai-Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil have launched the Barzan Gas Project, at a projected cost of $10.3 billion, to supply the local Qatari market with gas, Qatari media reported November 2. The first production phase of 700,000 Mcf/d is due to come on line in the third quarter of 2014. A second phase will start up in the first quarter of 2015, taking total capacity to 1.4 Bcf/d. That should be in time to meet growing local gas demand. The project was initially due to be operational in 2012.