Qatar's RasGas says Train 6 starts LNG output

LNG OUTPUT: RasGas starts LNG (liquified natural gas) production from new facility in Qatar. (Getty Images - for illustrative purproses only)

Qatar and Exxon Mobil have started producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a new facility in the Gulf state, LNG producer RasGas said on Wednesday.

"RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) announced today that Train 6 has produced its first liquefied natural gas," it said in a statement.

The new train is capable of producing 7.8 million tonnes of LNG per year, boosting the overall LNG production capacity of all RasGas companies to approximately 28.5 million tonnes per year, it said.

Qatar, the world's largest LNG exporter, expects to double annual capacity this year to 62 million tonnes through the start-up of four huge new LNG production facilities.

LNG is gas super-chilled to liquid form for export in specially designed tankers. The gas is processed and chilled at facilities known as trains.

RasGas expects to start Train 7 in late 2009. Both Trains 6 and 7 were expected to export LNG to Asia and the United States.

State-run Qatar Petroleum owns 70 percent of RasGas Train 6, while Exxon Mobil owns the remaining 30 percent.

Qatar has two LNG producers, RasGas and Qatargas. Both are majority-owned by Qatar Petroleum. (Reuters)

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