DOHA: The Qatargas Jetty Boil-Off Gas (JBOG) Project team recently celebrated its fifth Safety Day at Ras Laffan Industrial City.
The event was organised by the JBOG Project Management Team with support from its contractors, Fluor, Qcon, Qatar Kentz, Medgulf, Teyseer, Shaqab Abela, G4S and Draieh.
Commenting on the celebration, Sheikh Khalid Bin Abdulla Al Thani, Qatargas Chief Operating Officer, Engineering & Ventures, said: “Qatargas’ vision is to be the premier LNG company in the world, and the JBOG Project has shown what a premier safety performance looks like. The JBOG Project has not only achieved 19 million manhours while keeping their people safe, but also managed to sustain an incident and injury free work site for 12 consecutive weeks. I commend the JBOG management team, their contractors and their workers on keeping themselves safe, and urge them to maintain their high safety standards up to the last day of the project.”
Bashir Mirza, Project Manager, JBOG, said: “The outstanding feat of keeping everybody on the project safe for over three years and 19 million man hours does not come easy. It has taken hard work, rigorous training and sharp vigilance on a daily basis by everyone to ensure that Everybody Goes Home Safe. The real heroes of JBOG’s safe working success are our workers, and this safety day was a small token of our gratitude to them.”
The activities for the Safety Day included contractor’s safety display booths, safety quiz contests, and awards and recognition for demonstrating safety excellence. Winners of the poster making contest, the best safety booth and the safety quizzes were given prizes. Several attractive prizes were given away through a raffle draw.
The JBOG Recovery Project aims to recover gas currently being flared during LNG ship loading at the Ras Laffan port. The project will enable boiled-off gas to be collected from LNG ships and compressed at a central facility. The compressed gas will then be sent to the LNG producers to be consumed as fuel or converted back into LNG. This project, when fully operational, will recover the equivalent of some 0.6 million tonnes per year of LNG, which is enough natural gas to power more than 300,000 homes.
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