Qatargas holds 1st post-integration Town Hall session

Qatargas has recently held its first Town Hall meeting at the Qatar National Convention Centre, almost a year into the successful integration of Qatargas and RasGas.

The annual Town Hall meetings are an open forum for employees to meet with Qatargas’ chief executive officer and the Management Leadership Team for discussions on the company’s performance, developments, and strategic goals for the year ahead.

During the meeting, the Corporate Planning Department outlined the company’s strategic goals for the next five years, which include expanding and sustaining LNG production and ensure readiness to operate, completing Qatargas Management Systems (QGMS) integration and its effective implementation to maintain premier performance, and achieving Qatarisation targets through a skill-based Qatarsation strategy, while attracting and retaining qualified people to maintain optimum skills and experience levels in the business.

The strategic goals also include improving uptime availability, reliability, and utilisation of the LNG plants to achieve full plant capacity and meet supply rights; enhancing and promoting reliability culture across the organisation to drive efficiency; maxim- ising revenue by penetrating new markets; maximising customer satisfaction, while retaining contractual and financial performance; and gaining competitive advantage through flexibility.

The company’s 2018 achievements in a number of key areas, including safety, health, and environmental (SHE) performance; high calibre workforce; efficient and reliable operations; financial performance; and customer satisfaction were also reviewed in the meeting.

In SHE sector, Qatargas maintained a “strong flaring performance” ahead of the target, won the prestigious ‘Qatar Sustain- ability Award’ for its Jetty Boil Off Gas recovery facility, successfully achieved the best process safety performance with zero high potential (hipo) incidents, and completed the Zero Liquid Discharge Project in Laffan Refinery 2, which positively helps the environment.

As for the efficient and reliable operations, the company’s LNG production this year was on target, while sustaining strong reliability performance of 97.6%. It also achieved a very strong Laffan Refinery reliability of 99.7% ahead of current year targets, completed three major shutdowns safely, and awarded the North Field expansion Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and Barzan Pipeline Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts.

The company signed a new longterm Sale and Purchase Agreement (22 years) with PetroChina and achieved new sales to Petrobangla, Bangladesh and Pavilion Gas, Singapore.

Regarding customer satisfaction, Qatargas maintained outstanding flexibility with no off-spec or late deliveries.

A question and answer session followed in which Qatargas CEO Khalid bin Khalifa al-Thani and the management team replied to employee’s questions and enquiries on work-related matters.

The annual Town Hall meetings are an open forum for employees to meet with Qatargas’ chief executive officer and the Management Leadership Team.