VOL. XXXV

NO. 52

28-SEPTEMBER-1992

Qatar

Qatargas to Charter LNG Carriers Pending Delivery of New Buildings

The Qatar Liquefied Gas Company (Qatargas) is going ahead with its program tocharter seven LNG carriers, each with a capacity of 135,000 cu ms., for thetransportation of 4mn tons/year of LNG from Ras Laffan port in Qatar to ChubuElectric Company at Nagoya in Japan beginning in 1997, under the terms of the25-year contract concluded by the joint venture with Chubu last July (fordetails, see ...