BEIJING--July 31, 2008--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Faisal Bin Mohammed Al Suwaidi, Chairman and CEO of Qatargas Operating Company, the operations and assets managing company of the four Qatargas firms, announced this month that the first of Qatargas' four large-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) production lines in construction will go into production by the end of 2008. The company's annual LNG production is expected to reach 17.8 million tons per year.