Qatargas has successfully commissioned and achieved stable operation of a key environmental project for the reuse of treated industrial water within its facilities in Ras Laffan Industrial City (RLIC). The Treated Industrial and Process Water (TIPW) facility is now fully operational. The TIPW facility removes contaminants in the waste water through biological treatment, ultra-filtration and reverse osmosis purification to achieve water purity on the same level of the desalinated water. This facility can reprocess up to 275 cubic metres per hour of treated industrial wastewater generated from the Qatargas South LNG plant. This new facility helps Qatargas eliminate discharge of almost all of the treated industrial and process water. (TNN)