Marking the final major milestone to deliver its North Field East (NFE) LNG Expansion Project to boost Qatar’s LNG production capacity to 110 million tons per annum (MTPA), QatarEnergy announced the award of a major engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for the North Field Expansion Project.

A joint venture between Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR) and Wison Engineering (Wison) has been selected as the EPC contractor and was awarded a lump-sum contract for the expansion of the sulfur handling, storage, and loading facilities within Ras Laffan Industrial City.

These facilities will support the NFE’s four new LNG trains, which are scheduled to start by year-end 2025. The contract will also include an option for further expansion to support sulfur production for the two additional LNG trains of the North Field South (NFS) project, and infrastructure to support future additional LNG trains.

Commenting on this occasion, His Excellency Mr. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the Minister of State for Energy Affairs, the President and CEO of QatarEnergy said: “The award of this EPC contract is the culmination of our efforts to implement the NFE project, the largest of its kind in the history of LNG industry, as part of our journey for the sustainable development of our massive natural gas resources, while maintaining our position as the world’s largest, safest and most reliable LNG producer. The contract with the TR-Wison joint venture includes options for the NFS project as well as any future requirements for the handling, storage and loading of sulfur. We look forward to working together to deliver this important project in a safe, timely, and successful manner.”

H.E. Minister Al-Kaabi expressed his thanks to Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa Al Thani, the CEO of Qatargas, and the working teams from QatarEnergy and Qatargas for their dedicated efforts that have led to the successful conclusion of this new contract.

In delivering the contract, the TR-Wison joint venture will manage the detailed engineering work from Qatar, leveraging the country’s growing technical capabilities for the development of major projects.

Sulfur produced as a by-product of the gas treatment process required prior to the production of LNG is used in the production of fertilizers and as a base material for intermediary chemicals used in the manufacturing of industrial and household products.

With the execution of this EPC contract, the only remaining major EPC contract for the delivery of the North Field Expansion Project, comprising the NFE and NFS projects, is the EPC contract for the NFS two onshore processing and liquefaction trains, which is currently planned to be awarded by the end of 2022.

When completed, the NFE and NFS projects will increase the State of Qatar’s LNG production capacity from 77 MTPA today to 126 MTPA by 2027.

About Qatar Energy

As a fully integrated energy corporation, Qatar Energy covers the full spectrum of the oil and gas value chain – from exploration to production, from processing and refining to sales and delivery.
As stewards of Qatar's natural resources and the world's largest provider of LNG, our strength rests in our ready access to Qatar's unique reserves to provide energy that fuels social and economic prosperity.

About Técnicas Reunidas

The Spanish company Técnicas Reunidas is one of the most important in its sector on an international scale, with a presence in 25 countries and a track record that totals more than 1,000 industrial plants in its 60 years of experience.

Its activity is mainly focused on engineering projects, the development of industrial plants for the production of clean fuels and petrochemical products, the production and processing of natural gas, and the promotion of advanced low-carbon technologies, such as green hydrogen, CO2 sequestration and capture, biofuels, waste recovery, etc.

About Wison Engineering

Wison Engineering (Stock code: 2236.HK) was established in 1997 and listed in Hong Kong in 2012. Headquartered in both Shanghai and Hong Kong, it specializes in providing diversified solutions covering entire project lifecycle, including technology selection, project planning and consultation, project financing, EPC, commissioning and start-up, in the fields of petrochemical, coal chemical, oil refining, natural gas chemical, oilfield ground services, LNG and power generation.