Technip Energies Designs Offshore Compression Platforms for QatarEnergy LNG’s North Field

Larsen & Toubro Hydrocarbon (L&T) granted Technip Energies a detailed engineering design (DED) contract, valued between €50 million and €250 million, to establish designs and specifications for two offshore compression complexes in QatarEnergy LNG’s North Field. The DED contract follows Technip’s completion of the front-end engineering and design phase.

Each offshore compression complex will feature large-scale offshore platforms, flare platforms, interconnected bridges, and additional infrastructure, building out QatarEnergy’s North Field Production Sustainability Offshore Compression Project (NFPS COMP 4).

"We are pleased to be entrusted by L&T and QatarEnergy LNG for the DED of the NFPS COMP 4 project,” said Marco Villa, Chief Business Officer of Technip Energies. “This selection highlights the confidence and trust in our engineering expertise and Technip Energies’ established capability to support Qatar’s energy security, projects, and objectives.”

Within the scope of North Field, QatarEnergy recently announced that work is currently underway at a new LNG expansion project, North Field West, to increase Qatar’s LNG production capacity to 142 MTPA before the end of 2030. This production increase is approximately 85% higher than current Qatari production levels.

Platform in Qatar's North Field; image credit: Saipem

Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, President and CEO of QatarEnergy, also announced that extensive appraisal drilling and testing have confirmed productive layers of Qatar’s North Field extend towards the west, which allows for the development of a new LNG production project in Ras Laffan. The CEO also announced the presence of large additional gas quantities in the North Field estimated at 240 trillion cubic feet, which raises Qatar’s gas reserves from 1,760 to more than 2,000 trillion cubic feet. Condensate reserves were also raised from 70 to more than 80 billion barrels, in addition to quantities of liquefied petroleum gas, ethane, and helium.

QatarEnergy will immediately begin the basic engineering works necessary to ensure that the planned progress is achieved under the new project’s approved schedule. The company will implement various aspects of the North Field production expansion projects, including the North Field East and North Field South projects.

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In December 2024, Net-Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power) reached financial close and issued a full notice to the GE Vernova/Technip Energies (T.EN)/Balfour Beatty consortium. The U.K. project is to be, according to the consortium, the world’s first gas-fired power station with carbon capture and storage, capturing up to 2 million tons of CO₂ per year. The captured carbon will be transported and permanently stored by the Northern Endurance Partnership. Once the plant is up and running, it could produce up to 742 MW of flexible low-carbon power.

Technip Energies, with the support of technology partner Shell Catalysts & Technologies, is leading the integration of a carbon-capture plant using its Canopy by T.EN solution, powered by Shell’s CANSOLV CO₂ capture system. GE Vernova will lead the integration of a combined-cycle power plant and its EGR system, which enables the operator to boost the efficiency and performance of carbon capture.