Pearl GTL Project

Shell’s Pearl GTL: The Largest Gas-To-Liquids Plant In The World

Jul 31st, 2014
by John Donovan.
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Screen Shot 2014-02-10 at 16.29.29Extract from a Rigzone article published Wednesday 30 July 2014

In 2008, Shell announced it would partner with Qatar Petroleum and build Pearl GTL in order to produce cleaner-burning diesel and kerosene, base oils for top-tier lubricants, a chemical feedstock called naphtha (used to make plastics) and normal paraffin, which is used to produce detergents. Today, the plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City, 80km north of Doha, Qatar, is the largest gas-to-liquids plant in the world. 

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Voser Says Shell to Quicken Disposals to Offset Spending: Energy

Nov 13th, 2013
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Screen Shot 2013-11-13 at 07.38.22Royal Dutch Shell Plc is gearing up to sell about $15 billion of assets as Europe’s largest oil company accelerates disposals to offset the cost of projects from Australia to Canada. While Voser didn’t put a figure on disposals, Shell needs to raise at least $15 billion over the next two years to meet its financial targets, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

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By Eduard Gismatullin November 12, 2013

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) is gearing up to sell about $15 billion of assets as Europe’s largest oil company accelerates disposals to offset the cost of projects from Australia to Canada.

Asset sales will allow Shell’s net capital investment, spending on projects adjusted for acquisitions and disposals, to fall from this year’s record $45 billion, Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser said in an interview. A raft of new projects coming on stream gives room to sell oil and natural gas fields, he said. read more

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Shell still No.1 on Fortune Global 500 List 2013

Jul 9th, 2013
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Screen Shot 2013-07-09 at 15.50.47 Screen Shot 2013-07-09 at 15.51.35 Rank: 1 Previous rank: 1 CEO: Peter R. Voser Employees: 87,000

Last year, Shell held the number one spot on the Fortune Global 500 list and was pushing to drill in the Arctic. This past March, the U.S. government blocked the company from drilling until it can provide a more convincing plan for exploring the region. The company has also paused another risky endeavor — one of its pipelines in Nigeria that caught fire this summer. Shell shut it down and began investigating the cause of the fire in late June.

Shell, however, remains strong. Its earnings for the first quarter of 2013 beat analyst expectations. Despite problems with certain drilling projects, the company continues to rake in money from various assets, one of which is its profitable Pearl gas-to-liquid plant in Qatar. read more

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Shell mulls more efficient, but still costly GTL mega-project on US Gulf

Jun 29th, 2013
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London (Platts)–28Jun2013/902 am EDT/1302 GMT

Shell’s hopes for a new gas-to-liquids mega project on the US Gulf Coast would benefit from much-improved process efficiencies, but any resulting cost savings could be limited by the need to build most of the plant outside the US, Shell officials said this week.

Shell has improved its proprietary GTL technology to the point where it can achieve 50% gains in throughput volumes compared to its giant Pearl GTL plant in Qatar which came on stream in 2011, according to one of Shell’s top GTL scientists. read more

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Shell Profit Increases on Income From Liquefied Natural Gas

Nov 1st, 2012
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A technician compares samples of lubricant oil in the control laboratory at Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s new lubricants blending plant in Torzhok, Russia. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg

By Eduard Gismatullin on November 01, 2012

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA)’s third-quarter profit expanded 2.3 percent after Europe’s biggest oil company generated increased earnings from liquefied natural gas.

Net income rose to $7.14 billion from $6.98 billion a year earlier, Shell said today in a statement. Excluding one-time items and inventory changes, profit was $6.6 billion, beating the $6.3 billion average estimate of 13 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.

Earnings “benefited from the increased contribution from integrated gas, which included an additional dividend from an LNG venture,” said Shell, based in The Hague. LNG sales gained 4 percent to 4.97 million metric tons from a year ago, mainly reflecting the contribution from the Pluto project in Australia. read more

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Shell ramps up Qatari gas-to-diesel money machine

Aug 28th, 2012
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Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:38am EDT

* Pearl GTL ramping up to full production

* Plant is world’s biggest gas-to-liquids facility

* Project development cost Shell $18-19 billion

* High oil price, free gas input make it a money-spinner

By Andrew Callus and Peg Mackey

STAVANGER/LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) – – A Qatari project that has been a drain on Royal Dutch Shell’s capital since 2003 is on the verge of turning into a unique asset that will produce billions of dollars a year in cash for the next 25 years. read more

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Shell has learned from its Pearl GTL project and costs can be cut: Voser

Mar 8th, 2012
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Houston (Platts)–7Mar2012/519 pm EST/2219 GMT

Lessons learned in the construction and operation of the Pearl gas-to-liquids project in Qatar will allow for a reduction in the “capital intensity” of future projects, including any developed in the US, Royal Dutch Shell CEO Peter Voser said Wednesday.

In remarks at a press briefing and in a public question-and-answer session at the CERAWeek conference in Houston, Voser said Shell is “very pleased” with the multi-billion-dollar plant, whose two trains of 70,000 b/d each are five times the size of the small-scale train the company operated in Malaysia for many years. A second plant at Qatar is in the final stages of construction. read more

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Shell On Track To Deliver Growth Targets For 50%-80% Cashflow By 2012

Sep 9th, 2011
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

LONDON (Dow Jones)–Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA.LN), Friday confirmed that it has made solid progress in starting up three world-class oil & gas projects in 2011, which at peak will add some 400,000 barrels oil equivalent, and is on track to deliver its strategic targets for 50-80% growth in cash flow from operations from 2009 to 2012.

MAIN FACTS:

-Shell’s three-year strategic plan, outlined in 2010, is building the foundations for profitable growth for shareholders in the future. read more

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Pearl GTL project in Qatar

Jun 10th, 2011
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Energy Minister Al-Attiyah and Malcolm Brinded of Shell, sign the Pearl GTl Project DPSA

From “Outspoken”, a former employee of Shell Oil USA

John,

I don’t have time to prepare a full blow article for you, so I decided to drop you a note about Shell and its gas investments that will give you an idea as to why Shell is moving toward natural gas as the anchor for its business.

Attached is the link to an article on the Pearl GTL project in Qatar. Shell has an enormous investment in this project and Qatar has some of the greatest natural gas reserves in the world.

Pearl Gas-to-Liquids Project, Ras Laffan – Hydrocarbons Technology
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Shell Aims for ‘New Nigeria’ as $19 Billion Qatar Plant Starts

Mar 4th, 2010
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By Stanley Reed and Robert Tuttle

March 4 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc spent $19 billion, triple the original estimate, to build the world’s largest gas-to-liquids plant. Now, it’s pay-off time and the company says the project may generate $6 billion a year.

Shell needs the plant, known as Pearl, to bolster output, which fell for a seventh year in 2009 in part because rebel violence hampered oil ventures in Nigeria. Qatar, the arid Gulf state that’s become the world’s biggest exporter of gas on ships, may account for 10 percent of the company’s production after Pearl and a liquefied natural gas project start deliveries next year. read more

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Royal Dutch Shell: Good Progress Of Pearl GTL, Qatargas 4

Nov 24th, 2009
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LONDON (Dow Jones)--Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) said Monday it was making good progress with the Pearl GTL and the Qatargas 4 projects in Qatar.

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Shell pushes back completion date of $8 billion Qatargas 4 Project

Nov 23rd, 2009
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Dutch oil supermajor Royal Dutch Shell (LSE: RDSB) updated the market on its progress in Qatar, where  it is developing the Pearl GTL and Qatargas 4 projects in cooperation with state owned Qatar Petroleum, which operates all oil and gas activities in the country. While Pearl GTL was progressing in line with expectations, the US$ 8 billion Qatargas 4 project has been delayed by 10 months with startup now planned for late 2010.

The company has now entered into the testing phase at Pearl GTL, having inaugurated the plant’s control room that comprises about 1,000 control cabinets hosting 179 servers programmed with 12 million lines of software code. read more

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SHELL SPIN ON PEARL GTL BUDGET

Nov 23rd, 2009
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In the light of the information printed below, how can anyone be expected to believe anything Shell says…

ARTICLE PUBLISHED TODAY BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

NOVEMBER 23, 2009, 10:22 A.M. ET

THE BS:

Shell Pearl GTL Project To Cost $18B-$19B, In Line With Budget

LONDON (Dow Jones)–Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s (RDSB.LN) Pearl GTL in Qatar is expected to cost $18 billion to $19 billion, in line with its planned budget, a spokeswoman said Monday, underscoring progress made by the company in controlling its costs.

The news contrasts with the disclosure four years ago by the Anglo-Dutch oil company that costs at a giant Russian liquefied natural gas plant had doubled to $20 billion. read more

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A Gamble in Qatar: Royal Dutch Shell is making a huge — and risky — bet on technology that transforms natural gas to diesel fuel

Feb 9th, 2009
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Shell started experimenting with GTL technology during the energy crisis of the 1970s, when it began to search for an alternative to gasoline. In 1993, Shell opened its first GTL demonstration plant in Bintulu, Malaysia. The project was derailed in 1997 by a massive explosion caused by a profusion of carbon molecules in the air as a result of extensive forest fires in Indonesia. It took three years to repair the damage.

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World’s largest gas-to-liquids plant by end 2010

Oct 21st, 2008
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Pearl GTL is a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell and represents Shell's single biggest equity investment anywhere in the world. Estimates for the total cost of the project vary between $12billion and $18 billion, up from an original $5 billion.

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Shell Qatar wins award for safety *(Shell gives itself an award)

Oct 21st, 2008
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Shell Qatar chairman Andrew Brown said, “Safety is a key priority for us. If we can’t be safe, we don’t operate. Every day our concern is the safety of the 35,000 people working at our Pearl GTL work site.”

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