Invensys receives award of appreciation for key contributions to the US$4 billion RasGas Phase I Expansion Project in Qatar

Invensys receives award of appreciation for key contributions to the US$4 billion RasGas Phase I Expansion Project in Qatar

Invensys Process Systems was recognized by RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) as one of three key vendors contributing to the successful completion of the RasGas Phase 1 Expansion Project at the RasGas Contractor Awards Dinner held at the Four Seasons Hotel, Doha, Qatar on March 19, 2007. During the ceremony, RasGas Managing Director, Dr Mohammed Saleh Al Sada, presented Invensys with a beautiful appreciation award trophy inscribed, “Presented to Invensys Process Systems for Highly Valued Contributions to the Completion of the RasGas Phase 1 Expansion Projects 2001-2007.” Accepting the award for Invensys Process Systems were KL Tan, Vice President, Asia Pacific Operations, and Bill Hunt, Qatar Country Manager.

The RasGas Phase 1 Expansion Project included the design, construction, and commissioning of RasGas LNG Trains 3, 4, & 5 and Offshore Platforms; with a total investment of approximately US $4 billion. Invensys supplied state-of-the-art technologies and fully engineered control and safety solutions to meet the demands of the largest operating LNG Trains in the world. The system components include Foxboro Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Triconex Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), and Triconex Fire and Gas (F&G) protection systems.
Earlier this month, RasGas announced the launch of RasGas LNG Train 5, which represented the conclusion of the Phase 1 Expansion Project. Train 5 is one of the world’s largest Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) production units with a production capacity of 4.7 million tonnes per annum (Mta) of LNG. Construction of the LNG liquefaction plant was completed in 28 months, and like its predecessor Train 4, was completed under budget and ahead of schedule. Additionally, Train 5 was built with an outstanding safety record.

In December 2006, Invensys announced that it had also been awarded an automation contract for the RasGas LNG Trains 6 and 7 onshore expansion project. With an annual LNG capacity of 7.8 Mta each, Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company (3), (RL 3), Trains 6 and 7 will clearly be among the world’s largest LNG trains. When both new mega trains come on line by the end of 2008 and 2009, respectively, the RasGas LNG complex, located in Qatar’s Ras Laffan City, will be the world’s largest. The Invensys automation systems installed at the RasGas LNG complex (which also include the systems supplied for the Trains 1 and 2 projects in 1996), represent Invensys’ single largest base of systems installed in an LNG complex as well as the worlds largest integrated DCS network ever installed in an LNG plant.

About Invensys

Invensys is the world leader in industrial asset performance management, a strategy designed to help today’s industrial enterprises to effectively balance the availability and utilization of their production assets to match changing business requirements. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions and Performance Management services groups, Invensys’ automation businesses includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world’s largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills. For more information on Invensys’ process automation businesses, please visit www.invensys.com/ps.

The Invensys Group (www.invensys.com) is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.