QatarEnergy LNG CEO, Khalid bin Khalifa Al-Thani with other officials during the conference.
Doha, Qatar: QatarEnergy LNG hosted the 19th Engineering Conference bringing together industry professionals, academics, and partners to exchange new ideas, share lessons learned, and to strengthen networking across the oil and gas sector.
The conference was held at Qatar National Convention Centre on September 23-24 and was attended by experts from QatarEnergy LNG, shareholders, local and international companies, and leading local universities.
The event served as a premier platform for the exchange of technical knowledge, innovative technologies, and practical lessons learned, while offering valuable opportunities for professional networking and cross-sector collaboration. It also emphasized meaningful engagement between the energy industry and local academic institutions, enabling productive dialogue and potential partnerships that contribute to the sustainable growth of Qatar’s energy sector.
Khalid bin Khalifa Al-Thani, QatarEnergy LNG CEO, opened the conference with a message that underscored the strength of partnerships in Qatar’s oil and gas sector and the privilege of hosting such a milestone event. He stated: “This conference marks an important milestone for QatarEnergy LNG. Engineering excellence, innovation, and operational resilience and reliability remain at the core of our progress and today we reaffirm that commitment. We are not only gathered here to share knowledge, but to also align, challenge, and inspire one another.”
This year’s conference marks a transition from an annual engineering forum to a biennial conference. Moving to a two-year cycle enables the company to gather richer insights, highlight meaningful project milestones, and engage in forward-looking discussions that reflect the rapid evolution of the industry.
The conference concentrated on four core themes that drive performance and sustainable growth in the LNG and broader oil and gas sector: digitalization, cyber security, and artificial intelligence; decarbonization initiatives; aging facilities and asset life extension; and energy efficiency and yield improvement.
The conference hosted a management panel discussion titled: Expansion & Sustainability - Enabling QatarEnergy LNG’s Future. The discussion focused on QatarEnergy LNG’s commissioning and operational integration of expansion projects as the panelists shared insights into the company’s future plans and strategies in this field. The event included five technical panel discussions, forty technical presentations, eighty poster sessions showcasing key innovations and field achievements, and fifteen booths from our shareholders, various academic institutions, industry partners and QatarEnergy LNG highlighting advanced solutions and the latest technologies and research in the oil and gas industry, providing valuable insights to enhance operations.
On the first day, attendees explored parallel sessions across the four thematic tracks, with key technical presentations and topics spanning collaborative development of in-house Predictive Emission Monitoring Systems for QatarEnergy LNG, a pilot study for boilers and turbines, a slated Closed Flare Retrofit Industrialization project, and a structured approach to asset life extension ensuring safety and integrity.
