Everything at the Pearl GTL plant in Ras Laffan is huge.
To give ArabianOilandGas.com readers an idea of the scale of Qatar and Shell’s ambition, here are some of the more eye-popping facts and stats from our visit to Ras Laffan:
1. Amsterdam – the equivalent footprint of Ras Laffan Industrial City
2. London’s Hyde Park and Kensington Garden – the equivalent footprint of Pearl GTL
3. $20 billion – Shell’s combined upfront investment in the Pearl GTL and Qatargas 4 projects at Ras Laffan
4. 3,500 – number of proprietary Shell patents at work at Pearl GTL
5. 28,800 – the combined weight in tonnes of Pearl’s 24 reactors, before each is loaded with 200 tons of catalyst
6. Shell used enough concrete in the construction of Pearl GTL to build two Burj Khalifa’s
7. Construction involved 52,000 workers from over 60 countries
8. Enough road journeys were completed in the construction of Pearl GTL to circumnavigate the globe 5,000 times
9. 77 million – the number of hours of construction at Pearl GTL without an LTI
10. 260,000 – the barrels of oil equivalent per day Pearl GTL will produce when fully operational
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