Emerson helps Qatargas save energy, reduce emissions

Emerson won this multi-million dollar contract based on its leadership in oil and gas automation technologies, services, and expertise. Under the multi-million dollar contract for the Jetty Boil-Off Gas (JBOG) Recovery facility, Emerson specialists managed key elements, including automation engineering, configuration, start-up, training, commissioning support and other services. The work done by Emerson will reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.6mn tonnes annually.

Now fully operational, the JBOG facility is the biggest of its kind and one of the largest environmental investments in the world. It is expected to recover more than 600,000 tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year, which is equivalent to the energy supply for more than 300,000 homes.

The facility is designed to recover the gas flared during LNG loading at the six LNG berths in Ras Laffan Port. The gas is compressed and sent to the Qatargas and RasGas LNG production facilities for use as fuel or as LNG.

“Without Emerson’s highly skilled team, completing the project would have been vastly harder,” said Michael Koo, project manager at Qatargas.

Emerson’s automation solution for the project included the DeltaV distributed control system to control and monitor operations, as well as the company’s Fisher control valves and Rosemount measurement instruments.

Alvinne Rex Abaricia, Emerson’s senior program manager for Qatargas, said, “We were able to apply flexible approaches to increase efficiency, such as testing hardware and software in parallel, and brought in dozens of experts from our own organisation as well as other suppliers to manage interfaces between existing and new systems.”