UAE

Ras al-Khaimah Commissions LPG Plant

The UAE emirate of Ras al-Khaimah has commissioned a 1,000 b/d liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) plant which utilizes natural gas from the offshore Saleh field. The plant was built at a cost of $16mn by McDermott of the US. Two storage tanks with a total capacity of 500,000 barrels were recently brought on stream to store the condensate which is extracted from wet gas from the Saleh offshore wells. Production from the Saleh field is currently averaging...