RasGas Offshore Production Team Achieves 19 Years Without Lost-time Incidents

Doha, May 24 (QNA) - RasGas Company Limited's (RasGas) Offshore Production Department (Shorebase) has completed 19 years of operations without a lost-time incident. RasGas Shorebase has served as a hub supporting the offshore gas production operations and our drilling operations. It contributed towards supporting the logistics involved with the production of nine billion cubic feet per day of natural gas and the drilling of over 150 offshore gas production wells. The company's Chief Operations Officer Fahad Mohammed Al Khater praised the Offshore Production Department's success, stating, "I'm extremely proud that we continue to demonstrate RasGas' industry-leading safety performance." "RasGas has a long-established culture of safety awareness, and our rigorous and systematic approach to reducing and eliminating workplace risk has made the company an industry leader in safety performance. This significant milestone is a testament to our focus on accident prevention and our commitment to maintaining an injury-free workplace," he added. He also congratulated the company's contractor workforce for playing a critical role in ensuring safety is a priority and maintaining a secure work environment in all RasGas locations. While the safety challenges in the oil and gas industry are significant, Al Khater added that "these accomplishments demonstrate that working together as a team and embedding safety as a core value in everything we do, brings RasGas closer to our goal where nobody gets hurt." RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) is a Qatari joint stock company established in 2001 by Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil RasGas Inc. It acts as the operating company for and on behalf of the owners of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects RL, RL (II) and RL3 (Project Owners). With operations facilities based in Ras Laffan Industrial City, RasGas' principal activities are to extract, process, liquefy, store and export LNG and its derivatives from Qatar's North Field. On behalf of the project owners, RasGas exports to countries across Asia, Europe and the Americas with a total LNG production capacity of approximately 37 million tons per annum. (QNA)