Air Products (AP) recently announced that it has been selected to provide its proprietary AP-X Natural Gas Liquefaction Process technology and equipment to Qatargas for the first phase of Qatar Petroleum’s massive LNG production expansion project, commonly known as the North Field East (NFE) Project, in Ras Laffan.

Each of the four new LNG process units, the largest LNG production trains in the world, will have a production capacity of 7.8 million tonnes per year.

AP will build the AP-X LNG heat exchangers at its Port Manatee, Florida manufacturing facility. Typically, an LNG heat exchanger can be as large as over 5 meters in diameter and 55 meters long. A finished unit can weigh as much as 500 tons.

AP has supplied key equipment and technology for all of Qatar’s 14 existing LNG trains operating in Ras Laffan.