Part 1: Economic Outlook 2021 - 2023
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Box 1-5: Progress in the construction of the North Field gas project in Qatar
On 24 August 2021, Qatar Energy announced that it had awarded an engineering, procurement, and
construction (EPC) contract pertaining to the North Field Expansion Project in Qatar to the Spanish
company, Técnicas Reunidas. Under the terms of the contract, Técnicas Reunidas will be responsible
for the expansion of existing storage and loading facilities for liquid products, including condensate,
propane, and butane. It will also expand its mono-ethylene glycol processing unit within Ras Laffan
Industrial City (North). The purpose of these facilities is to handle liquid products from the six new
production trains, four in North Field East ((NFE) with a capacity of 32 million tons, and two in North
Field South (NFS) with a capacity of 16 million tons. The production is scheduled to start-up before the
end of 2025 from NFE, while the production from NFS will start at the end of 2027.
It is estimated that the cost of constructing production trains in NFE is about US $28.75 billion. In
February 2021, Qatar Energy announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) for international
companies wishing to contribute about 30% of the total cost. In June 2021, TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil,
and Royal Dutch Shell confirmed their desire to bid for a stake in the project, whereas Eni, Chevron
and ConocoPhillips began to study the matter.
Aiming to cover part of the project's costs by self-financing, Qatar Petroleum issued multi-tranche
bonds amounting to US $12.5 billion, as shown in Table (1), as per US RegS/144A bond offering for
sales to investors outside the United States in offshore transactions, that consists of 5-, 10- and 20-
year conventional tranches, and a dual-listed 30-year Formosa tranche.
Moreover, Qatar Energy held a virtual roadshow at the end of June 2021 and met with over 130
international investors, including global insurers, asset managers, pension funds, and bank treasuries,
which resulted in a high quality orderbook above $40 billion.
This is considered as the largest US dollar fixed rate oil and gas offering, the largest corporate issuance
in the MENA region, and the largest corporate Formosa tranche raised globally.
Table (1) for Box (1-5) Offering Multi-Tranche Bonds (US$ Billion)
Bond value (US$ billion) bond duration (years) Yield (%)
Interest (%)
1.5
5
UST+50bps
%1.38
3.5
10
UST+90bps
%2.25
3.5
20
Yield of 3.15% %3.125
4.0
30
Yield of 3.30% %3.3
Source: Qatar Energy's website
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