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Shell Pearl GTL, Ras Laffan, Qatar
Pictures from the mammoth plant on 31 May 2011
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The press gathering in the GTL plant control room.
The Pearl control room, gearing up for increased GTL product production.
Shell’s Joop Van Der Linde explains how the mammoth reactors were put in place, before Oil & Gas sees the real thing.
Van Der Linde and two team members display the very first sample of GTL wax, ready for cracking into GTL base oils, Gasoil, Kerosene, Normal Paraffin and Naphtha.
The giant Heavy Paraffin Synthesis reactors in Pearl GTL Phase I, 4 of which are already on stream. Each weighs 1,200 tons and contains 200 tons of catalyst.
The Phase I refinery plant at Pearl GTL. The plant includes the world’s largest steam methane reformer.
The Phase II blast furnances, which will operate at tempratures in excess of 1,000 degrees Celsius.
One of the four Phase I Air Separation Units (ASU), which provide oxygen for creating Syngas. Together with Phase II, they comprise the largest ASU ever built.
Phase II construction workers, taking shelter from the mid-morning sun. Shell operates a clear flag policy for working in Qatar’s extreme conditions.
The Phase II air compressor unit in construction.
Bipin, a site manager from Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), a Shell contractor on Pearl since 2006. CCC have had up to 20,000 workers on site, and boast over 80 million working hours without an LTI.
One of myriad safety signs in and around Pearl GTL. The company has been keen to emphasise a new standard of worker safety and welfare, which includes pushing their standards down the contracting chain.