Officials with the Best Mena Oil and Gas Project Award at the Adipec ceremony.
DOHA: Pearl Gas to Liquids (GTL) project received yet another recognition at the region’s flagship industry event Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (Adipec). Pearl GTL won the ‘Best Mena Oil and Gas Project Award’ in recognition of the originality of its concept and the long-term value it generates for Qatar and Shell, a statement said yesterday.
Sheikh Thani bin Thamer Al Thani, Deputy General Manager of Qatar Shell, received the award on behalf of Qatar Shell and Qatar Petroleum (QP) at the ceremony held in Abu Dhabi.
Minister of Energy and Industry and Managing Director of QP H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, said: “This is a great recognition of the joint effort put by QP and Shell to deliver a unique national asset for the State of Qatar. Pearl GTL is indeed, a realization of the wise vision of the Emir, H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, to make Qatar the GTL capital of the world and generate added value from the country’s abundant gas resources.”
Wael Sawan, Chairman of Qatar Shell and Managing Director of Pearl GTL said: “We are truly delighted to have been recognized at this leading industry event. Pearl GTL is indeed a one-of-a kind asset and we are very proud that together with QP we have been able to deliver and operate one of the most innovative integrated gas plants in the industry. It is testimony to the robustness of our partnership which enabled us to create a lasting legacy for the oil and gas industry and also set new standards of excellence.”
Sheikh Thani Al Thani said: “This is an outstanding recognition of our world class asset Pearl GTL, the world’s largest gas to liquids plant. We are enormously proud of the performance of the asset, which testifies to QP and Shell’s commitment to operational excellence. Pearl GTL has broken many industry records over the years and we are truly privileged to have been entrusted with the responsibility to safely and reliably produce from this asset.”
As the leading oil and gas event in the Middle East region, the ADIPEC Awards recognize projects which set new performance standards by showing commitment to quality, safety and operational excellence from design phase to operation. The criteria also measure the technical and commercial values generated by the projects and their respective competitive advantages.
Pearl GTL is the largest energy project in Qatar and at $18 – 19bn is Shell’s largest investment in a single project. It captures the full value chain from offshore development through onshore gas processing to refining of finished products. It consists of two unmanned offshore platforms 60km off the Qatar coast, connected by pipeline to the world’s largest Gas to Liquids plant ever built.
The ambitious project has design capacity to convert 1.6bn standard cubic feet per day of wellhead gas into 260,000 bbl per day of products, comprising 140,000bbl/d of GTL products and 120,000bbl/d of condensate, LPG and ethane.
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