QatarEnergy LNG has awarded Samsung C&T E&C Group to build a large-scale carbon compression and transport facility. Its engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract is estimated at KRW 1.9 trillion ($1.3 billion).
The project is situated in Ras Laffan Industrial City, approximately 80 km north of Doha, to capture and compress carbon dioxide emitted by adjacent LNG liquefaction facilities, remove moisture, and convey it via 20 km of underground pipelines to a frontier gas reservoir, where it will be permanently stored geologically.
However, the completion is aimed by 2030, Samsung C&T reported that the new facility will be able to manage 4.1 million tons of carbon in a year once it becomes operational, which means that it will be one of the largest carbon management facilities in the Middle East and an important component of Qatar’s energy transition strategy.
The project will be executed through Samsung C&T without involving any design to construction company, using the state-of-the-art engineering facilities to maintain safety, reliability, and efficiency of the compression and transportation processes.
Since the project is technologically demanding, such as the provision of accurate pressure and temperature control systems to ensure safe movement of compressed carbon, the company will apply its previous experience in the big LNG projects in Qatar.
Samsung C&T is also set to enhance its partnership with reliable local partners and reduce the interference with the facilities that are already in place in the industrial complex, so that the project implementation could go smoothly.
TradeArabia News Service reported that “This contract builds on our extensive track record in Qatar’s major projects,” said Byung-soo Lee, Executive Vice President and Head of Global Business Development Division at Samsung C&T E&C Group.
He further added that “Together with our solar power initiatives, this project allows Samsung C&T to play a central role in advancing Qatar’s sustainability policies and low-carbon development goals.”
