It has been over a decade since something remarkable happened in a deserted piece of land in the far northern part Qatar.

This was the story that changed the fortune of the entire nation and reaped rich dividend for its people.

Today Qatar has been propelled to the position of being the world’s leading supplier of clean energy.

Qatar Petroleum scripted one of its biggest success stories in Ras Laffan, which is one of the fastest growing industrial cities on the globe, exporting energy products to Japan and eventually to Europe and America.

The discovery of Qatar’s huge North Field gas reserves in 1971, highlighted the country’s strength  in the world energy arena and Ras Laffan Industrial City became the torch bearer to the beginning of a new age of clean energy.

Since its inception in 1997, Ras Laffan Industrial City proudly maintained its position as a leader in the energy industry, supplying 31 million tonnes per year of LNG worldwide by 2007 along with condensate sulphur, and hopes to record 77 million tonnes per year by the year 2010.

Ras Laffan Industrial City located on a northeastern coast of Qatar covers an area of approximately 248 sq km and is an ideal location for investment for energy giants and future investors.

Qatargas and RasGas own and operate two of the world’s leading industries of LNG production and export.

The state expansion projects have positioned them to be one of the principal world’s supplier of LNG. In addition to the entry of LNG productions, the RLC Master Plan visualises the future growth of the city and its industries.

Oryx GTL, the first gas-to-liquids plant established in the region, produces and exports 34,000 bpd of and diesel. It could produce in future base oil for lubricants.

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In addition to these huge projects, the Pearl GTL project will convert 106 million cubic feet per day into 14,0000 bpd of diesel, naphtha, paraffin and base oil for lubricants.

In addition to these huge projects allowing to export liquid hydrocarbon, gas pipeline projects are on their way.

The Dolphin Energy project will provide the UAE and Oman with two billion cubic feet of natural gas per day with the potential expansion of and additional one billion cubic feet of natural gas per day.

The Al Khaleej Project will develop reserves in the North Field to supply 750 million cubic feet of lean gas to Oryx GTL and Ras Laffan Power Company. It will be extended through Al Khaleej Gas Project phase II with an additional capacity of 1.5 billion cubic feet per day of lean gas to be used on the domestic market. In the future, the Barzan Project should allow the treatment of more than 1.7 billion cubic feet per day of lean gas also dedicated to the domestic market.

The helium plant will produce 660 million cubic feet per year and by 2010, one billion cubic feet per year.

Other plants such as the Laffan Condensate Refinery and Ras Laffan Olefins Cracker are under construction. Additional plants such as aromatics, polyethylene, ammonia, urea and ethanol are considered to be established in Ras Laffan.

To cater to the efficient transportation of the LNG and liquid product export, Ras Laffan Industrial City built the Ras Laffan Port.

The Ras Lafan Port accommodates five LNG berths and six liquid berths to meet the end-users’ requirements.

In addition, a major expansion of the Ras Laffan Port will triple the capacity of the existing harbour to meet the requirements of LNG, GTL and petrochemical projects planned over the next 20 years.

The expansion will include LNG and liquid berths.

With a dry dock facility container terminal for the export of petrochemical products, new dry cargo berths, the overall capacity of the port will be more than 25 million tonnes of LNG per year.

It will be the largest hydrocarbon exporting facility in the