QatarEnergy’s LNG carrier fleet to reach 200 vessels in few years

Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the minister of state for energy affairs, the president and CEO of QatarEnergy, detailed Monday the company’s shipbuilding programme, the largest in the industry’s history.

The company has launched the biggest shipbuilding programme, comprising of 128 LNG carriers, with 38 already delivered and one due to be handed every three weeks this year and beyond.

In the next few years, it is projected that the company will have one of the largest LNG carrier fleets in the world, reaching about 200 vessels.

Under the patronage, and in the presence, of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Amir of the State of Qatar, the 21st International Conference and Exhibition on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG2026) was inaugurated on Monday at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha and will continue until 5 February.

Speaking at the opening of the LNG2026, the minister Al-Kaabi pointed to QatarEnergy’s expansion projects, which will double Qatar’s LNG production, saying: “The mega-projects we have launched a few years ago will more than double QatarEnergy’s LNG production from 77 million