RASGAS located in the country of Qatar and is one of the worlds largest supplier of LNG has chosen OILKLEEN as its choice for electrostatic oil filtration. The OILKLEEN electrostatic filtration system will protect and clean the lubrication systems within the plant and allowing RASGAS to achieve maximum reliability and productivity during their production of LNG.

In March 2007, His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir of the State of Qatar, presided over a ceremony that marked a defining moment in Qatar’s development as a gas producing and exporting nation.

The inauguration of RasGas’ fifth natural gas liquefaction train put Qatar in a position of undisputed leadership in world LNG. It took the nation’s combined nameplate LNG production capacity to 30.7 million tonnes per annum (Mta). For a nation of fewer than a million people to dominate such a key and fast-growing part of the global natural gas industry is a remarkable achievement. At the turn of the 21st century, the term “liquefied natural gas” (LNG) was not even widely known. But today Qatar is bringing this very efficient fuel to homes and businesses around the world, from Asia to Europe and soon the United States.

These countries are now aware that LNG is a strategic, clean energy source that powers their economies and helps to improve their environment. Each drop of LNG consumed in a power station, for example, emits a significantly lower amount of potentially damaging greenhouse gases than would otherwise be released into the atmosphere by the equivalent burning of coal. In a world looking to reduce its impact on climate change, this is an immense benefit.

LNG is also the “energy to transform”; the message at the heart of the RasGas campaign to communicate its positive impact on Qatar and its people, from health and education to environment and opportunity. Every drop of LNG that is shipped to another country has a lasting and sustainable effect on the lives of the people of Qatar.

The significance of Qatar’s energy resources and of the part played by RasGas in extracting and distributing those resources continues to grow. Industry experts estimate that by 2010 Qatar will supply 30 per cent of the world’s LNG, of which RasGas will ship around half. For a company established only in 1993, this is an astonishing feat. But the company’s achievements are about much more than numbers. RasGas, its shareholders and its employees also nurture and take very seriously a deep sense of corporate citizenship and social responsibility.

Under the vision and guidance of His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani and the Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, RasGas has developed something very special: an “energy to transform” that brings long-lasting benefits to people, businesses and countries around the world.