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The head of Qatar’s oil industry has said that the massive US$19 billion Pearl Gas to Liquids (GTL) project headed by Shell will start-up at the end of 2010.
Zawya Dow Jones reported that Abdulla Al-Attiya said that the plant should be operational by the year end.
Pearl GTL will be the world’s largest plant converting natural gas into 140,000 barrels per day of clean-burning liquid transport fuel and other products. The project will also produce 120,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day of natural gas liquids and ethane.
Since the project launch in July 2006 progress has been good. The project is proceeding in line with expectations at the time of final investment decision (FID). Onshore, over 40,000 workers are now building the two-train GTL plant and numerous items of major plant equipment have been installed. Offshore, drilling continues.
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