Qatar expects to increase its liquefied natural gas (LNG) output capacity to 77mn tons a year by the end of 2012, Hammad Mubarak Al-Muhannadi, operations group manager at Rasgas said. Qatar has a new production line starting up next spring and another in autumn 2009. Train six will be producing LNG sometime between March and May next year, with another production line coming online next October. Al-Muhannadi added that the LNG market will grow slightly starting from next year. Qatar , the world's largest exporter of LNG, negotiates with Kuwait to supply it with LNG. Qatari LNG is produced mainly from state-owned Qatar Petroleum’s RasGas and Qatargas.
