Rigzone is reporting:
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.
At the peak of
construction 52,000 workers from 65 countries were deployed on the site
and overall it took the team 500 million man-hours to design and build.
As well as being the biggest, Pearl GTL is also one of the most complex
and challenging energy projects in the world – the GTL technology alone
has 3,500 patents.
The statistics are staggering: to build Pearl GTL a total of 750,000 cubic metres of concrete was poured. That’s enough to construct two Burj Khalifas (the world’s tallest building).
Pearl
GTL draws on gas from Qatar’s North Field, estimated to hold
900
trillion cubic feet of gas. That’s an estimated 13% of the world’s
total.
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