MOSCOW (MRC) -- The Hague, Shell, has announced its Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar, is currently operating at a reduced rate of production due to unforeseen maintenance required on some or all of the plant’s 18 gasifier units, as per Hydrocarbonprocessing.
Safety and asset reliability remain Shell’s highest priorities. Repairs are already underway and operations at Pearl will continue at a reduced rate until repairs are completed. Shell is currently carrying out technical assessments to determine when the plant will return to full production. In the meantime, Pearl is producing at approximately 50% of plan.
Pearl has a volume of GTL products in storage and Shell will work closely with customers to minimize impacts to supplies.
Pearl in Qatar is the world’s largest GTL plant. The fully-integrated facility has capacity for production, processing and transportation of 1.6 Bcf/d of gas from Qatar’s North Field. It has an installed capacity of about 140 thousand boe/d of high-quality liquid hydrocarbon products and 120 thousand boe/d of natural gas liquids and ethane.
As MRC informed before, in early October 2016, Royal Dutch Shell declared force majeure on base chemicals from its ethylene cracker at its Bukom manufacturing site in Singapore, following an outage the day before. The Bukom site, Shell's largest wholly owned plant, has a 500 Mbpd refinery and a steam cracker that produces more than 900 Mtpy of ethylene. The plant resumed production on 30 October 2016.
Royal Dutch Shell plc is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the biggest company in the world in terms of revenue and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". Shell is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading.
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