Qatar Shell lets EPCM contract for Pearl GTL operations

Dec. 11, 2014
Qatar Shell Ltd., a unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, has let a contract to a division of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., Montreal, to provide long-term engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) services for its Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) onshore and offshore installations in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.

Qatar Shell Ltd., a unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, has let a contract to a division of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., Montreal, to provide long-term engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) services for its Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) onshore and offshore installations in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.

Under the 4-year call-off contract, which includes a possible 2-year extension, SNC-Lavalin’s Qatar Kentz will manage the EPCM work for all services related to plant changes, as well as minor base and medium projects for a new phase of the Pearl GTL project, SNC-Lavalin said.

In addition to EPCM services, Qatar Kentz’s scope of work will include project management, specialist studies, logistics activities, commissioning management, and execution of construction works, SNC-Lavalin said.

SNC-Lavalin did not release a precise value of what it called a “multimillion dollar” contract.

While no details regarding the “new phase” of the Pearl GTL project were disclosed, SNC-Lavalin said the project will allow Shell Qatar to continue to enhance local development.

Operated by Shell under a development and production-sharing agreement with Qatar Petroleum, the Pearl GTL plant has a GTL production capacity of 140,000 b/d as well as the ability to produce 120,000 b/d of NGLs and ethane (OGJ Online, Mar. 23, 2011).

Major construction on Pearl GTL was completed in 2010, with the gas processing plant starting production of condensate, LPG, and sulfur in March 2011.

The plant ramped up to its full GTL production of 140,000 b/d near yearend 2012 (OGJ Online, Sept. 11, 2014).