Wael Sawan
,Executive Vice President & Chairman,Qatar Shell
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Wael Sawan has served as an executive vice president and chairman of Qatar Shell GTL since April 2012. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Sawan started his career as project engineer in Oman in 1997 and since 2008 has been heavily involved in Shell’s main activities in Qatar.
In 2012 Sawan was appointed managing director for the Pearl GTL Project, a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell. Pearl GTL is the world’s largest GTL plant and has placed Qatar at the forefront of gas-to-liquid production. It uses 1.6 Bcf/d of gas feedstock to produce 140,000 bbl/d of GTL products as well as 120,000 bbl/d of natural gas liquids and liquefied petroleum gas.
