The LNG Safety Program, which will extend and complement the existing BP-sponsored program run at the Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, will help advance the science and technical understanding of key safety issues impacting the worldwide LNG industry. The research will be carried out at Texas A&M at Qatar in Doha and will encompass practical testing at Qatar Petroleum’s Ras Laffan Emergency and Safety College which is currently being constructed at Ras Laffan Industrial City.

The facilities and research programs, expected to be launched in 2008, will be of great benefit to Qatar Petroleum and the petro-chemical industry in the State of Qatar as it will enable fire and emergency response services and fire engineers to learn more about the behavior of LNG fires and it will also offer students in fire engineering the opportunity to do Ph.D. research.