RasGas' Shipping Department achieves highest possible rating in Environmental, and Occupational Health and Safety audits

Doha -September 25, 2016

RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) has been awarded a five-star rating by the British Safety Council subsequent to an Environmental Audit, and the Occupational Health and Safety Audit.

RasGas' Chief Marketing & Shipping Officer, Khalid Sultan R. Al Kuwari, stated, "At RasGas we are deeply committed to delivering cleaner energy to our customers in a manner that is safe, efficient and preserves the environment. This is a fundamental corporate goal, and the British Safety Council's rating is testament to the success of our efforts to maintain these rigorous standards." 

This impressive achievement was attained after a quantified, objective evaluation of the environmental, and occupational health and safety management systems of the shipping and LNG transportation functions. The Environmental Audit measured the Shipping Department's performance against set criteria, including a number of key environmental management indicators, providing a worldwide benchmark of the department's environmental management performance, policies, processes and procedures; while the Occupational Health and Safety Audit measured performance against key safety management indicators.

These audits have, since 2013, included two additional indicators, Leadership and Continuous Improvement, thereby placing greater emphasis on occupational health, employee wellbeing, the safety culture, allocation of resources to health and safety, and planning for change. All of these are now considered best practice factors.

The British Safety Council's Five Star Environmental, and Occupational Health and Safety audits offer a structural path for continuous improvement, and RasGas' five-star grading in both is the highest possible rating that can be achieved.

The British Safety Council is a government-regulated awarding organisation primarily concerned with ensuring 'no-one is injured or made ill in the workplace'.

RasGas' world-class shipping fleet comprises long-term LNG charter vessels that efficiently serve to meet the needs of a global customer-base.

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About RasGas
RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) is a Qatari joint stock company established in 2001 by Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil RasGas Inc. RasGas acts as the operating company for and on behalf of the owners of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects RL, RL (II) and RL3 (Project Owners).  With operations facilities based in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar, RasGas' principal activities are to extract, process, liquefy, store and export LNG and its derivatives from Qatar's North Field. RasGas, on behalf of the Project Owners, exports to countries across Asia, Europe and the Americas with a total LNG production capacity of approximately 37 million tonnes per annum.

For pipeline sales gas to the domestic market, RasGas also operates the Al Khaleej Gas Projects, AKG-1 and AKG-2 supplying approximately 2.0 billion standard cubic feet (Bscf) per day. RasGas is currently adding production capacity by managing the construction of the Barzan Gas Project which when fully operational, is expected to supply approximately 1.4 Bscf of additional sales gas per day to the Qatari market to meet growing demand for energy at power stations and downstream industries.

RasGas currently operates the Ras Laffan Helium Plant which was established in 2003 and came on stream in 2005. The plant extracts, purifies and liquefies helium from the North Field. The second helium plant entered production in June 2013 bringing the total liquid helium production capacity to 1.96 Bscf per year.

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