DOHA - Dolphin Energy Ltd said on Monday it will begin pumping natural gas to Oman later this year as part of a regional project under which it also supplies gas to the United Arab Emirates.
Oman will begin receiving natural gas from Ras Laffan off the coast of Qatar "from the third quarter of 2008," the company said in a statement released on the sidelines of a ceremony formally launching the 4.8-billion-dollar project.
The company began pumping gas last July to the UAE via a submarine pipeline as part of the project, which has been operational since last year, with gas produced and processed at Qatar's North Field and then transported to the UAE.
France's Total and Occidental Petroleum of the United States each hold a 24.5 percent stake in Dolphin, with the remaining 51 percent held by the Abu Dhabi-owned Mubadala Development Co.
Qatar has the world's third-largest gas reserves.
In February Dolphin said it had achieved its daily target of pumping two billion cubic feet (57 million cubic metres) of natural gas from Qatar to the UAE.
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