Qatar Shell Ltd., a unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, has let a contract to Cape PLC to provide multidisciplinary maintenance services for its Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.
Under the 5-year contract, which includes a 1-year extension option, Cape’s Qatar operations will provide the Pearl GTL plant scaffolding, painting, insulation, and refractory services, Cape said in a Sept. 10 release.
A value of the contract was not disclosed.
Shell is operator of the Pearl GTL plant under a development and production-sharing agreement with Qatar Petroleum.
Major construction on Pearl GTL, launched in July 2006 (OGJ Online, July 27, 2006), was completed in 2010, with the gas processing plant starting production of condensate, LPG, and sulfur in March 2011 (OGJ Online, Mar. 23, 2011).
The plant ramped up to its full GTL production of 140,000 b/d near the end of 2012.
In addition to producing kerosene, gas oil, and naphtha from GTLs, the Pearl GTL plant also uses Shell’s patented process of converting natural gas into a clear base oil to produce Shell PurePlus technology base oils, which were formally introduced to the global market in a series of phased releases beginning in early 2014.