LNG

April 4 (LNGJ) - QatarEnergy, which supplied the commissioning cargo over the weekend from Ras Laffan for the new East Coast Indian LNG import terminal at Dhamra on the Odisha coast, also signed an agreement with Shell on April 2 to acquire a 40 percent working interest in the C-10 block located offshore the West African nation of Mauritania, a future LNG producer.

   QatarEnergy will hold a 40 percent working interest in the exploration and production agreement for the C-10 block operated by Shell and in which the Mauritanian national energy company SMH has a 10 percent stake. Mauritania is additionally a shareholder along with neighbour Senegal in the BP-led development of floating LNG projects in the Atlantic Margin waters.

Qatar Petroleum has spoken up for the producer side at the LNG Producer-Consumer Conference in Tokyo while also encouraging importers and nations currently without LNG to take advantage of the fuel that is now a crucial part of the global environmental clean-up.

Qatar Petroleum, the leading liquefied natural gas producer, has signed an agreement to acquire a stake in 12 exploration blocks offshore Morocco as the Gulf nation continues to increase its international exploration and production activities.