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OAPEC Activities
Volume 41 Issue 10
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Natural Gas Industry:
It is a paper presented by
Engineer Wael Hamed
Abdul
Mo’ti
,
Gas
Industries Expert, from
the Technical Affairs
Department,
OAPEC.
The lecturer spoke about
the history of natural gas, and
then introduced the stages of the natural gas
industry starting from gas production and
processing, through the recovery of LNGs
like ethane, propane, and butane of high
heating value to obtain marketed gas with
conforming specifications that can be used as
fuel in different economic sectors. The lecturer
indicated that natural gas production in Arab
countries has witnessed a big development
since the beginning of the 1980s until 2014.
The Arab region is contributing with more than
16% of the world’s gas production compared
to 3.7% in 1980, making it the fastest growing
region with regards to its production at an
annual rate of 7.3% during that period. Qatar
tops Arab natural gas producing countries,
followed by KSA and Algeria. The lecturer
then talked about the last stage of the industry;
that is gas exporting system, whether liquefied
via tankers or as gas through pipelines, or
transforming it to liquefied fuel like diesel
and kerosene. He explained that Qatar has
built two of the world’s largest gas-to-liquid
GTL plant to transform gas to liquids; they
are Oryx (2006) and Pearl GTL (2011). Qatar
alone contributes by about 74% to the world’s
production capacity in this field.
Oil and Gas Transfer
The lecture was presented by
Mr Yasin
Mohammed Al Sayyad,
Director of the
Commercial Department, Arab Maritime
Petroleum Transport Company (AMPTC). He
presented a paper titled “Clean Product Exports:
thechangingfaceof theoil andgas transportation
markets”. The paper tackled a number of main
points including: current developments in the
world’s petroleum market, the future of the
world demand for oil and gas, the USA oil
and gas production and consumption, LNG
production and consumption developments,
developments of oil and gas demand in the
Middle East, refining capacities and changes in
the world’s oil products demand pattern, the big
shift from crude oil production to oil products
export, and oil tankers market.
The paper reached a number of conclusions
including that the oil tankers’ market has
witnessed positive developments over the past
12 months and will continue to show positive