DOHA: RasGas showcased a series of projects it has launched with an aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the ongoing World Gas Conference (WGC) in Paris.
“As one of the prominent global energy suppliers, RasGas continues to invest in technology solutions to enhance business requirements and to be prepared to meet future challenges in an effective and efficient manner,” said Hamad Mubarak Al Muhannadi, RasGas Chief Executive Officer.
While presenting the paper on RasGas’ green initiatives, Abdulla M Al Attiyah, Acting Head, Facilities Assessment - Venture Development Planning at RasGas, said the State of Qatar is continually striving to be at the forefront of measures to conduct its operational activities with minimum impact to the environment.
“RasGas’ projects for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions will capture, treat, inject and /or re-use CO2rich streams from the existing Sulphur recovery units at its plants in Ras Laffan Industrial City in Qatar,” said Al Attiyah.
Al Attiyah continued by noting that the series of projects by RasGas (Acid gas diversion, CO2injection and export tie-ins) is an integrated programme, that when fully implemented, would reduce the atmospheric emissions of CO2by up to 2.5 million tonnes per year at RasGas or the equivalent CO2 emissions of approximately 500,000 passenger vehicles. It would strive to make maximum use of existing facilities, thereby enabling a potentially cost-effective pursuit of improved environmental performance.
RasGas representative in the International Gas Union (IGU) working within the Programme Committee Group D, LNG, Kamran Javed, Specialist, Short-term Sales in the Marketing & Shipping Group presented the IGU paper titled ‘LNGas fuel’, which was officially released to the public at the WGC.
This IGU study explores the evolving role of LNG as a fuel across many industries that consume hydrocarbon energy including transportation on road, rail, marine, aviation, heavy machinery, mining, drilling, agriculture and remote power generation. LNG itself is the physical form, which is regasified for consumption in natural gas engines and dual fuel (natural gas and diesel) engine applications.
LNG as a fuel helps the environment when considered in the global climate debate by significantly reducing emissions such as CO2 up to 20 percent and sulphur dioxide up to 100 percent when compared against other fuels like marine fuel oil or motor gasoline.
In addition to the ‘LNG as Fuel’ study, RasGas participated in two additional IGU studies and helped write the World LNG Report – 2015 Edition, which was issued at the WGC. RasGas is an active member of the IGU, which is a leading organisational body for the promotion of natural gas and LNG use globally.
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