In 2006, Linde Engineering won one of the biggest contracts in the history of engineering.
On behalf of Qatar Shell GTL Ltd., it is building eight of the world’s largest air separation plants, to be handed over turn-key by the end of 2010.
In Qatar, Shell is building the world’s largest gas liquefaction plant to turn natural gas into liquid products and fuels. The Pearl GTL plant will manufacture around 140,000 barrels of liquid hydrocarbons per day, including naphtha, GTL fuels, paraffin, kerosene and lubricant oils.
The complex will also produce approximately 120,000 barrels per day of condensate, liquefied petroleum gas and ethane.
Linde Engineering is responsible for securing the high-volume oxygen stream required for this massive project – in other words, some 860,000 cubic metres an hour. This Qatar project is the single largest air separator contract ever.
The Linde Group has been active in the GTL segment for many years now.
In South Africa, for example, we delivered two air separators at the end of the 1980s for the world’s largest GTL complex at the time. Our South Africa-based customer PetroSA, formerly Mossgas, uses the plant to produce 34,000 barrels of diesel as well as kerosene, lubricant oils and naphtha from natural gas.
Until recently, there was only one other GTL plant in the world located in Bintulu, Malaysia. Now, alongside the Shell plant, a second complex has been ordered in Qatar by our customer Sasol.
At a glance | |
| Name: | Air separators |
| Country: | Qatar |
| Raw material: | Natural gas |
| Process technology: | Generating oxygen through air separation |
| Cooperation partner: | Qatar Shell GTL Ltd. (customer) |
| More information: | Pearl GTL-Projekt |
