Doha: A user guide with the potential to increase a machine’s efficiency by six percent enhances the quality of RasGas Company Limited’s (RasGas) liquefied natural gas production and bolsters the company’s revenues.
With his ingenious idea, Al Maha Al Mana won the RasGas Company Limited’s (RasGas) Summer Internship Star Competition 2015.
The contest for the eighth consecutive time this year marks the end of the 10th Summer Internship Programme for young Qataris and residents studying in local universities.
In addition to providing an environment where students can learn about business needs in the field, interns are given individual projects to work on under the guidance of a mentor and are eligible to compete in the annual Summer Internship Star Competition at the end of their summer stint.
Competing interns present projects to a panel of judges and are selected based on presentation delivery and content.
Of this year’s 53 interns who joined the summer programme, eight vied for RasGas Star. The winning Mechanical Engineering student at Texas A&M University in Qatar (TAMUQ) presented the guide to increase the efficiency of companders in the LNG industry.
Al Mana said she learned a lot from being on site and experiencing first-hand the work environment at Ras Laffan. “It was a valuable and challenging experience. Working on the project under the guidance of my RasGas mentor allowed me to have a clear vision of what my future career as an engineer will be like.”
Al Mana along with Abdulaziz Al Meraghi, a chemical engineering student at Qatar University and AbdulRahman Hendi also studying mechanical engineering at TAMUQ made it to the final round. Al Meraghi proposed cost-saving environmental project and Hendi studied the efficiency of the company’s well casings to suggest future improvements.
Al Meraghi and Hendi won second and third place, respectively.
The Peninsula
