VOL. XL

No. 6

10-February-1997

QATAR

Qatargas Second LNG Train Commissioned

The second train of the Qatar Liquefied Natural Gas Company (Qatargas) - with a capacity of 2mn tons/year of LNG - was commissioned on 18 January. Qatargas's third liquefaction train will be commissioned in mid-1999. A second cargo of 135,000 tons of LNG for Chubu Electric Power Company was shipped on 25 January from Ras Laffan on board the tanker Al Khor destined for Kawagoe port in Nagoya. The first shipment, also of...