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The $19billion Pearl GTL in Ras Laffan Industrial City, 90km north of Doha, is the largest-ever energy project undertaken in Qatar. CW updates progress.
Major construction work is now complete, and natural gas is flowing into the plant. At the peak of construction, more than 52,000 people worked on Pearl GTL. Around two million tons of equipment and materials were imported to the site.
Pearl GTL comprises upstream gas production facilities as well as an onshore GTL plant that will produce 140,000 barrels per day of high-quality gas-to-piquid (GTL) fuels and products, along with 120,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day of condensate, liquefied petroleum gas and ethane. It is the largest GTL plant in the world constructed to date.
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Shell will export Pearl’s high-value, differentiated premium products, including GTL gasoil, kerosene, naphtha, normal paraffin and base oils for lubricants to markets around the globe.
Pearl GTL will add almost 8% to Shell’s production worldwide. It is expected to ship its first product in 2011 and reach full production in 2012. The project is a Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between Qatar Petroleum and Shell.
The proprietary Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis (SMDS) process will be at the heart of the two-train Pearl GTL plant. Shell has over 3,500 patents at all stages of the GTL process.
The facility uses technology to limit environmental impact, designed to use every drop of water in an approach to not release any liquids from the plant. Pearl GTL’s industrial water processing plant will be the world’s largest (280,000 bpd) recovering, treating and re-using all the industrial process water.
KBR and JGC were the main contractors in a joint venture. The JV was awarded contracts to provide the basis of design (BOD)/basis design package (BDP), front-end engineering design (FEED), project management and start-up support of the overall onshore Pearl GTL complex, along with engineering, procurement and construction management of the GTL synthesis, utilities and infrastructure sections of the complex.
J. Ray McDermott SA, a subsidiary of McDermott International, was awarded a contract to engineer, construct, transport, install hook-up and pre-commission two wellhead platforms in Qatar’s North Field for the Pearl GTL project. Each platform, Pearl 1 and Pearl 2, weighs an average of 3,600 metric tonnes.
CB&I was awarded an EPC contract to design and build a storage facility for the Pearl GTL production complex.
The EPC scope of works for this part of the project included two storage farms, with six tanks at the harbour site and another 32 at the main complex, which has a combined storage capacity of 900,000m3 and utilises 120km of piping systems.
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these 2 companies shared their experiences to complete the project i should know i was there also in utilities for KBR