Reuters cited Mr Mark Albers senior Exxon executive as saying that Exxon Mobil natural gas output in Qatar would reach 4 billion cubic feet per day when all its projects there reach full capacity.

Exxon is the biggest foreign investor in Qatar, the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas. It has a stake in all 4 of the giant LNG projects starting up 2009 to double Qatar's LNG export capacity to 62 million tonnes per year from 31 million tones per year.

Mr Albers said that "Once all the projects in Qatar are at capacity we will be producing about 4 billion cubic feet per day of gas."

Mr Hamad al Mohannadi CEO of Qatar state controlled LNG producer RasGas said that another gas project in which Exxon has a stake, known as Al Khaleej 2, would come on line in the next couple of months. That project has capacity to pump 1.25 billion cubic feet per day.

(Sourced from Reuters)