At the unveiling ceremony, the Qatari Energy Minister, Abdullah ibn Hamad Al-Attiyah, said, "This is the world's largest LNG train with a production capacity of 4.7 million tons per annum."
At the heart of the entire project was the agreement signed between India and Qatar, which would see the Gulf state supplying India with around 7.5 million tons of LNG per annum for 25 years. All output from the initial train three will be used to honour this agreement, which will help provide LNG to Gujarat and Kerala in India.
"The Petronet-RasGas deal has been a groundbreaking agreement due to the sheer size of supplies involved and the vision that the Qatari and Indian governments share to transfer a safe and reliable and environmentally friendly source of energy from one country with an abundance of supply to another with a huge and growing demand," said the minister.
"Qatar and [our] partners are hoping the India deal will open the door to other promising Asian markets like China, Pakistan and Thailand and help [us] complete projects to supply the US market with Qatari LNG," added Abdullah.
