The world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter Qatar has recently commissioned the largest carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery and sequestration facility in the Middle East and North African region, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Qatar’s Minister of State for Energy Affairs, told the Oil & Money Conference in London on Tuesday. The facility at Ras Laffan is planned to have a capacity of 2.1 million tons of CO2 per year. “With such new Carbon Capture and Storage projects, Qatar’s LNG industry will be capturing and sequestering more than 5 million tons of CO2 per annum by 2025,” said Al-Kaabi, who is also the president and ... (full story)