Contracts for the Pearl GTL announced
Posted: 28 August 2006
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Shell's Pearl GTL project, set to be the world's largest integrated gas to liquids (GTL) complex, awarded multi-million dollar contracts last month.
In addition to the development of offshore upstream gas production facilities, Pearl comprises the development of an onshore GTL plant that will produce 140,000 barrels per day of GTL products and about 120,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day of natural gas liquids.
Project management and cost-reimbursable engineering, procurement and construction management services were awarded to KBR a subsidiary of Halliburton - in a joint venture with JGC of Japan. The project will also incorporate the services of MWKL, a KBR/JGC subsidiary.
The contract includes project management and start-up support of the overall onshore Pearl GTL complex, along with cost-reimbursable EPCM of the GTL synthesis, utilities and infrastructure sections of the complex.
Work for the utilities and infrastructure will be managed from MWKL's Greenford, UK offices; while activities for the GTL synthesis will be managed from the offices of JGC in Yokohama, Japan.
Hyundai Heavy Industries, in a consortium with Chiyoda, will provide engineering, procurement, and construction for the feed gas preparation works.
Two trains of gas processing units, with a capacity of 850 million standard cubic feet per day (mscfd) and a total of 1,700 mscfd of natural gas, will send feed gas to the GTL core unit to produce 140,000 barrels per day of GTL products.
The project will be completed around the end of the decade.
Toyo Engineering and Hyundai have received a lump-sum contract for the engineering, procurement, and construction of a 140,000-bpd liquid processing unit (LPU).
Due to be completed in the second half of 2010, the LPU unit is one of the major components of the project and is designed to maximise Qatar's natural gas usage.
Toyo, the leader of the consortium, will perform basic engineering, major equipment procurement, and commissioning. Hyundai will undertake detailed engineering and bulk material procurement and construction work.
J. Ray McDermott is tasked to engineer, construct, transport, install hook-up, and pre-commission two wellhead platforms in Qatar's North Field.
Front end engineering design verification and detailed design engineering on the topsides have already begun at the Jebel Ali engineering office. Construction will begin later this month. Each platform, Pearl 1 and Pearl 2, weighs an average of 3,600 tonnes.
Integrated process automation and control system will be designed and implemented by Honeywell. The company will supply Experion Process Knowledge System Release 300 platform, the UniSim process simulation solution, Safety Manager instrumented protection and fire and gas systems.
Last year, Qatar Shell awarded the project's front-end engineering design to Honeywell. |
