Laffan Refinery awards receiving and loading facility contract

The Laffan Refinery venture plans to construct the receiving and loading facility (known as the Gantry Project) which will allow distribution of diesel products to the northern geographical vicinity of the State of Qatar, including RLIC. The project's commercial structure will be based on several shareholder companies owning a share of the asset however the maintenance and operation of the facility will be managed by the Operator (WOQOD).

The project scope includes developing an entirely new automated Gantry Facility designed for the loading of diesel product into road tankers (up to eight trucks simultaneously) as well as transfer by pipeline to the Ras Laffan Port area. These operations will be enabled by the installation of approximately 13km of pipeline inside RLIC and the facility is scheduled to be fully operational by 2011. The diesel will be produced by the first condensate refinery in Qatar (Laffan Refinery) which has a processing capacity of 146,000 barrels per stream day (BPSD).

Mr Salman Ashkanani, Laffan Refinery-Venture Manager, said, "This project is of strategic importance to the State of Qatar as it creates vital new infrastructure for the distribution of diesel to the domestic market and builds upon the strategic vision started by the realization of the Laffan Refinery which became operational earlier in the Summer."