Doha - Qatar, 4 April 2012:  

The Qatargas Jetty Boil-off gas (JBOG) Project team recently celebrated its Safety Day at Ras Laffan Industrial City (RLIC).

Several activities, aimed at promoting a safe working environment and the Incident and Injury Free (IIF) culture were held at the Global Village camp in Ras Laffan Industrial City.  The event was organised by the JBOG Project Management Team with support from its contractors, i.e., Fluor, Qcon, Qatar Kentz, Medgulf, Teyseer, Shaqab Abela, G4S and Draieh. 

Commenting on the celebration, Sheikh Khalid Bin Abdulla Al-Thani, Qatargas Chief Operating Officer, Engineering & Ventures said:
"Safety is a core value for Qatargas and an integral part of our culture at every level.  The JBOG project has embraced Qatargas' 'Incident and Injury Free' programme from day one.  The project recently achieved yet another significant safety milestone of five million man-hours without any Lost Time Incident (LTI).  I truly appreciate the unrelenting commitment of the entire JBOG Project Management Team and its contractors to ensure that everybody working on the JBOG project goes home safe, everyday."

The JBOG Project Manager, Bashir Mirza added:
"The JBOG Project Team and our construction contractors have laid the foundations of a safe working system for around 2000 workers building the facilities. All JBOG team members take responsibility to keep themselves and their fellow workers safe.  I am proud that we have kept our workers safe from serious injury, and that we are all committed to do everything humanly possible to ensure that Everybody Goes Home Safe.  The second JBOG Safety Day was celebrated to thank the workers who have played a huge role in ensuring that we have an excellent safe working environment.  I want to express my sincere thanks to the team which organised this event and the contractors who contributed with their people and ideas to make this celebration a success."

The Safety Day celebrations were kicked off with an early morning site visit during which the senior project and contractors' leadership team toured the various project site locations and talked to the workers about safe working.  A special lunch was laid out for the workers in the Global Village camp.  The afternoon session was dedicated to other activities with a lot of fun and games for the 2000 plus workforce.

The activities for the day included safety display booths, safety quiz, sports activities and awards and recognition for demonstrating safety excellence.  Winners of poster making contest, best safety booth and safety quiz were given prizes.  Several attractive prizes were given away through a raffle draw.  There were also two live bands playing popular tunes to the delight of the audience well into the late evening. 

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About JBOG project:
The "Jetty Boil-off Gas (JBOG) Recovery Project" aims to recover gas currently being flared during Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) ship loading at the Port of Ras Laffan. The project is part of the Common Facilities Projects at Ras Laffan Industrial City in the north of Qatar. The project will enable boiled-off gas to be collected from LNG ships and compressed at a central facility.  The compressed gas will then be sent to the LNG producers to be consumed as fuel or converted back into LNG.  This project, when fully operational, will recover the equivalent of some 0.6 million tonnes per year of LNG, which is enough natural gas to power more than 40,000 homes.

About Qatargas:
Qatargas was established in 1984, and pioneered the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry in Qatar. Today, Qatargas, under the guidance of His Excellency Dr. Mohammed Bin Saleh Al Sada, Minister of Energy & Industry of the State of Qatar and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Qatargas, is the largest LNG producing company in the world, with an annual LNG production capacity of 42 million tonnes per annum (MTA) and is realising its vision to deliver LNG to its customers around the globe, from its world-class facilities in Qatar.

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