H E Saad bin Sherida Al Kaabi, the Minister of State for Energy Affairs and the President and CEO of Qatar Petroleum (QP) has confirmed that QP and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, which have partnered to develop the Middle East’s largest ethane cracker in Qatar, will be using the best available technology in the world in the upcoming project aiming to minimise its impact to the environment.
Minister H E Al Kaabi also noted that QP and its partners practice and comply to the highest standards with regard to health, safety and environment (HSE), and these factors will be of the paramount importance with regard to the upcoming project, which will be one of the largest petrochemicals complexes in the world. The new complex, to be developed in Ras Laffan Industrial City, will have an ethane cracker with a nameplate capacity of 1.9 million tonnes of ethylene per annum.
“The environmental aspect of any project of this size is of course given the utmost importance. We make sure that the best technology that money can buy are deployed to reduce the emissions and carbon footprint, and that’s what we have been doing in all our projects, including this one”, H E the Minister said in response to a question from The Peninsula at a press conference held on Monday to announce the signing of the partnership agreement between QP and Chevron Phillips.
He added: “We at QP and all our partners are practicing very high standards with regard to safety and environment as mentioned by Mark (Mark E Lashier President & CEO of Chevron Phillips Chemical), in his speech.”
Al Kaabi also noted: “We take into account the highest safety and environment standards right from the design stage of any such projects and deploy the best available technology in the world. Qatar has been striving to improve its environmental record over the past several years,’’ the Minister said.
