ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 17 Sport | 28 Ministry to Qatar can cope New Al Rayyan launch hotline with oil as low Stadium service to receive as $60, says impresses club’s complaints. Al Attiyah. coach, players. WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL 2015 • 10 Rajab 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6415 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar sets up Qatar launches $1bn gas recovery project BY SACHIN KUMAR DOHA: Qatar yesterday offi- field hospital cially launched $1bn Jetty Boil-Off Gas Recovery (JBOG) project that will reduce burning of gas (or flaring) by 90 percent while loading at Ras Laffan in Nepal LNG berths. The project will save 29 billion standard cubic feet of gas per year, enough to First relief effort by an Arab nation power 300,000 homes or to pro- duce 750 Mega Watt of power. DOHA: Qatar’s Red Crescent JBOG is the largest boil-off is setting up a field hospital this gas recovery project in the world. morning in one of Nepal’s most Labourers pool The project marks a major step difficult terrains, which remain towards conserving environment hit by Saturday’s devastating funds to send as the reduction is equivalent tremor and where the death toll to annual greenhouse gas sav- has so far been close to 500 in Nepalese home ings of 1.6 million tonnes of CO2, Nuwakot district. which is equivalent to the annual Nuwakot district, where the GHG emissions of about 175,000 Qatari Red Crescent team is DOHA: Workers from a vehicles. Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani (second right) and Minister about to reach earlier today, has labour camp in the Industrial H E Sheikh Abdullah bin also been battling challenging Area pooled in money from Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, of Energy and Industry H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada (second left) with other dignitaries at the launch weather since last Saturday. their meagre income to help Prime Minister and Interior ceremony yesterday. According to Nepali media a Nepali co-worker fly home Minister, inaugurated the reports, the place has been wit- as he lost his whole family in project yesterday at Rast Laffan off gas to be recovered. of the state,” said Saad Sherida of Qatar’s National Vision 2030 nessing rains, thunderstorm and the earthquake. Industrial City (RLIC). The project is part of the Al Kaabi, President and CEO of to have a proactive and signifi- massive landslides and the last Rajesh, 35, lost his wife, two Instead of the gas being burnt Common Facilities Projects at Qatar Petroleum and Chairman cant international role in assess- aftershock, an estimated 44th, it small children and both of his off, JBOG would collect the fuel RLIC and is led and operated of Qatargas. “The JBOG Project ing the impact of climate change felt was on late Monday afternoon. parents and a paternal uncle and transport it to an area where by Qatargas on behalf of Qatar demonstrates the commitment through the responsible produc- While help has yet to arrive here, when his house in his village it is compressed to be ready for Petroleum and RasGas Company of the State of Qatar to balance tion of LNG while protecting a team of Qatar’s Red Crescent will in Kathmandu district caved use again either as LNG or fuel Limited (RasGas). industrial development with care the environment for our future become the first relief operation in around Saturday noon after gas. As the Liquefied Natural Gas “Protecting the environment for the environment and rein- generations to come,” said Khalid from an Arab country to arrive a powerful tremor hit Nepal. (LNG) is loaded on to the ships, has always been a holistic com- forces our pioneering and leader- bin Khalifa Al Thani, CEO of in Nepal and set up a field hospi- The poor Nepali construc- around one percent of the LNG mitment in everything Qatar ship role in the energy industry,” Qatargas. tal here. The Red Crescent team tion worker was numbed when evaporates (boil off gas) due to Petroleum and its joint ventures he said. Some 3,500 workers and 22 mil- arrived at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan he learnt of the tragedy and the difference of temperature do. This commitment is embod- Since the plant started in lion man hours went into the con- International Airport yesterday struggled for two days to get between the cold LNG and the ied in a number of initiatives, October in RLIC, it has recov- struction of the plant. Ras Laffan with adequate paraphernalia to his passport from the com- warm ship tank. This boiled-off amongst which this project is ered gas from over 500 ships. is the world’s largest LNG export set up a make-shift field hospital. pany and salary arrears, his gas is flared or burnt at the berth the largest and most compre- “The JBOG Project is considered terminal and the only facility The paraphernalia consists of co-workers said. because there is no outlet for the hensive with regards to pro- a landmark project for Qatar. where multiple LNG ships (six) tents, beds, medicines and medical Continued on page 2 low-pressure gas. The JBOG tecting the environment and Qatargas is committed to being a can be loaded simultaneously. equipment. Emergency medicine THE PENINSULA Recovery Project allows the boiled exploiting the natural resources key contributor in the realisation THE PENINSULA stocks with the Red Crescent can last 30 days. cargo plane with the parapherna- The field hospital can cater to lia. They also carried with them 300 patients a day and will have tents and medicines and other enough staff. It can treat some relief materials to be distributed 9,000 patients in a month. to the quake-hit. Beauty salon, The team members of the Red Continued on page 2 Saudi bombs Sana’a airport Crescent flew in a Qatar Airways’ THE PENINSULA beautician fined to stop Iran plane landing for causing CAIRO/ADEN: Jets from urgently needed aid into Yemen. Yemen’s airspace and coastline off a Saudi-led alliance bombed A spokesman for the Saudi- limits to prevent delivery of arms woman injury the runway of Yemen’s Sana’a led coalition said air force planes supplies to the Houthis. A civil airport yesterday to prevent bombed the runway to stop an aviation official said the airport at DOHA: A bride has had a an Iranian plane from land- Iranian flight landing after it the Red Sea city of Hodeidah had nightmarish experience with a ing there, Saudi Arabia said, refused to coordinate with the also been bombed, but the extent beauty salon she visited on the as fighting across the country coalition and the pilot ignored of the damage to the runway was eve of her wedding as it caused killed at least 30 people. orders to turn back. Brigadier not immediately clear. burns on her body with some Airport officials said Saudi-led General Ahmed Asseri said the Earlier, Saudi-led jets bombed cream during a treatment. warplanes had struck a civilian bombing of the runway made it a private villa that nearby resi- The woman had boils on her aircraft operated by Yemeni Felix unusable for planned aid flights. dents said belonged to Abdullah hands and legs in an instant and Airways, setting it ablaze, as well Iranian state news agency Yahya Hakim, a senior Houthi instead of going back home for as a cargo plane. An official at IRNA, confirming the incident, official who was among a number wedding she rushed in a huff for the Yemeni civil aviation author- said the pilots had ignored “ille- of officials blacklisted by the UN emergency medical care. ity said the runway was targeted gal” warnings from Saudi jets to Security Council in November. Later, she lodged a police com- by 20 sorties that destroyed both turn back before the runway was Local residents also reported plaint against the parlour and the the take-off and landing runway. bombed. The agency said the plane heavy clashes overnight in oil- public prosecution filed charges A Qatar Red Crescent team member posing with relief consignment at The damage will further compli- was carrying humanitarian aid to producing Marib, in the city of against it and one of its beauti- Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu yesterday. cate humanitarian efforts to fly Sana’a. Saudi Arabia had declared Taiz, and in Aden. REUTERS cians and took them to court. The court, a criminal one, fined the beauty salon and the beau- tician who treated the woman Al Rayyan in third round QR5,000 ($1,373) each for causing Nigeria rescues harm to her deliberately. Drug convicts executed in The beautician, however, told the court in her defense that women held by when the woman called her for Indonesia, Filipina spared an appointment she told her not Boko Haram to use any cream for hair removal on her body on her own. CILACAP: Eight drug-trafficking convicts from several countries “But she had actually used MAIDUGURI: More than 200 were executed by an Indonesian firing squad shortly after midnight a cream at home despite our schoolgirls abducted from their yesterday, local media said, but a Filipina who was on death row with advice,” said the beautician. She school dormitories by Boko them was unexpectedly spared at the last minute. said before using the cream on Haram militants last year are There was no immediate official confirmation from Indonesia that the her body in the parlor she tested not among the nearly 300 girls eight men had been executed, though a lawyer for two Australians among it for allergy and then asked the and women rescued in an army the group said they had both been shot dead.