Qatar LNG Export
Summary
Qatar Energy LNG is a key company in Qatar's LNG industry.
Qatar is one of the top three LNG exporters to the global market. At the same time, the gas industry is dominant in Qatar's economy. Shipments are coming from two existing factories, QatarGas and RasGas. The QatarGas-NorthField plant is being actively constructed and heavily marketed with a nominal capacity of 49 million tons of LNG per year.
The top three carriers of Qatari LNG are Shell, Qatar Liquified Gas Co, RasGas Co.
The current top three countries importing Qatari LNG are China, India, and South Korea.
LNG Plant
Recently two LNG plants of Qatar (QatarGas and RasGas) were organized in one mega plant, the biggest on Earth.
Qatar is on the way to build new 31.2 MTPA capacities of new LNG trains of its two plants. These capacity additions are scheduled to go live 2026-2027. And in addition Qatar announced to growth capacity further.
LNG Loadings
The table “Monthly LNG loadings volumes “ provides statistics on the loading of gas carriers at Ras Lafan, the only LNG loading port in Qatar. The data is available from October 2022. 01.MM.YYYY means shipments for the entire calendar month starting on that day. Shipments for the current month are indicated by cumulative total from the first day of the month to the current date. The delay in receiving data is up to one day. The data is updated automatically.
The table “Details of LNG loadings in Qatar during last 30 days“ provides the data on loading of gas carriers at gas-liquefying plants ar Ras Laffan during last 30 days and is updated automatically.
Shippers
The graph “Carriers of Qatari LNG" shows the statistics on the volume of LNG shipments from Ras Laffan grouped by shipping managers. The data is given for last 365 days and is updated automatically.
Leaders of LNG transportation from Qatar:
Shell Trading and Shipping Company (STASCO, divisions of Shell)
RasGas Co Ltd (owner of Qatar's second LNG plant)
Qatar Liquefied Gas Co Ltd (owner of Qatar's largest LNG plant)
Export destinations
The table “Destination countries of Qatari LNG Export" provides statistics on importing countries of Qatari LNG with aggregation by calendar months. The date of gas carrier loading is used, the data on importing country is available upon discharge. The data has been provided since 01.09.2022 and is updated automatically. Data for the current month is shown as a cumulative total.
The current top three countries importing the Qatari LNG are China, South Korea, and India. This choice is logical: Qatar is located closely to these markets and its vessels do not need have to cross problematic channels (Suez, Panama). Among the importers are the second tier countries, whose share varies depending on the current market trends - Pakistan, Taiwan (province of China), Kuwait, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy.
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