Technip Energies revealed this in its third-quarter results report on Thursday.
North Field East Train 8 also started steam production, the French LNG engineering giant said.
Technip Energies also said that the installation of the first mechanical equipment on their foundations and the start of the erection of the steel structure started at the QatarEnergy North Field South project.
Last year, Technip Energies announced that the first train at QatarEnergy’s North Field East LNG project was more than 50 percent complete.
In February 2021, Technip Energies, in a joint venture with the Japanese company Chiyoda, won the contract for the engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning of the onshore facilities of the NFE project.
This contract covers the delivery of four “mega” trains, each with a capacity of 8 million tons per annum of LNG.
The new LNG plant will receive about 6 billion standard cubic feet per day of feed gas from Qatar’s North Field.
Technip Energies says NFE is the world’s largest LNG project to date.
Qatar’s energy minister and chief executive of QatarEnergy, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, said earlier this year that QatarEnergy’s North Field East expansion project will start production in mid-2026.
Besides this project, QatarEnergy has awarded the $10 billion engineering, procurement, and construction contract for the NFS project to a joint venture of Technip Energies and Consolidated Contractors Company.
The scope covers the construction of two “mega” LNG trains with a capacity of 8 million tons per annum each.
This first phase of the expansion project will increase Qatar’s LNG production capacity from 77 to 110 mtpa, while the second phase will further boost capacity to total 126 mtpa.
In February last year, QatarEnergy also announced the North Field West project which will add 16 mtpa of LNG to the overall expansion of the North Field.
