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Pearl GTL ships first commercial cargo of GTLGasoil
DOHA: Qatar Petroleum and Shell announced that the Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant, located in Ras Laffan Industrial City, has sold its first commercial shipment of GTLGasoil.The sale marks the start of production of GTL products when Qatar and Shell , the operator of the Pearl GTL plant, begin to receive revenue from the project. Over the coming months, production will ramp up from the first production unit ('train') of the Pearl GTL project.
The second train is expected to start up before the end of 2011. The plant is expected to reach full production capacity by the middle of 2012 and is the largest energy project ever launched in Qatar.
"Today's milestone provides further evidence that innovative technology and strong partnerships can help meet the world's growing need for energy. I would like to thank Qatar Petroleum and the State of Qatar for their support throughout, to make such a substantial project possible," said Peter Voser, Chief Executive Officer of Royal Dutch Shell .
Shell is the operator of the Pearl GTL plant developed under a Development and Production Sharing Agreement with the Government of Qatar. On 23 March 2011, gas began flowing from wells 60 kilometres offshore. Then the gas processing plant began producing condensate, LPG and sulphur and four of the world's largest air separation units began producing oxygen. The GTL plant, which employs Shell proprietary technology, was brought into production in May and converts the gas and oxygen to GTL wax. In the last step of the process, the waxes are cracked and distilled into finished GTL products.
Pearl GTL is expected to produce a number of high-quality GTL products for sale in oil product markets around the world: GTL Kerosene for blending into a clean burning aviation fuel; GTL Gasoil, a clean-burning diesel-type automotive fuel; GTL Base Oils for premium lubricants; GTL Normal Paraffin for detergents; and GTL Naphtha, a high-paraffin feedstock for the petrochemical industry.
© The Peninsula 2011
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