Qatar to Deliver Natural Gas to Bahrain in 2008

According to the Bahrain Tribune on March 22: In 2008, Bahrain will receive direct natural gas supplies from Qatar as part of the "Dolphin Project", an official from the Ras Laffan Industrial City told the Bahrain Tribune yesterday.

Bahrain is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the GCC countries will be directly connected by a natural gas pipeline with the capacity to transport 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas per day.

Bahrain will be connected to the pipeline after Abu Dhabi and Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates, which will be connected through a subsea pipeline network, a senior official said on condition of anonymity.

Oman will also be connected to the pipeline network along with Bahrain, and the Falcon project will be completed in phases with an estimated investment of more than $3 billion, the official said.

Bahrain has good relations with Qatar, which is an important point for the project. Qatar and Bahrain have signed a memorandum of understanding for direct natural gas supply. Work on the Bahrain project has already begun. During the first operational phase of the Falcon project, Abu Dhabi and Jabel Ali will receive 1 billion cubic meters per day of natural gas supply, which will later increase to 2 billion cubic meters per day, and Bahrain and Oman will be connected to the second phase over two years. Stage 2.

With 900 trillion cubic meters of natural gas reserves, Qatar is the world's largest natural gas reserve country. Qatar announced that it will expand the Ras Laffan port to make it the world's largest liquefied natural gas export port. Currently, Ras Laffan's natural gas production reaches 26 million tons/year, and the Qatari government is undertaking an ambitious plan to reach 77 million tons/year of natural gas production by 2010.