Customer: Bechtel/Sinopec/Foster Wheeler
Owner: Royal Dutch Shell PLC Qatar Petroleum
Location: Huizhou City,GD-PRC
Material Standard: Chinese GB
Fabrication Code: AISC AWS
Tonnage: 13,990MT
Duration: Sep.2003~May.2005
USSL Project No.: 8874
Project Description:
Pearl GTL is comprised of upstream gas production facilities as well as an onshore GTL plant that will produce 140,000 barrels per day of high-quality GTL fuels and products along with 120,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day of condensate, liquefied petroleum gas and ethane. When constructed, it will be the largest GTL plant in the world. Shell will export Pearl’s high value, differentiated premium products, including GTL gasoil, kerosene, naphtha, normal paraffin and base oils for lubricants, to markets around the globe. Pearl GTL will add almost 8% to Shell’s production worldwide. It is expected to ship its first product in 2011 and reach full production in 2012.
The proprietary Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis (SMDS) process will be at the heart of the two-train Pearl GTL plant. Shell has over 3,500 patents at all stages of the GTL process.
The facility uses technology to limit environmental impact, designed to use every drop of water in an approach to not release any liquids from the plant. Pearl GTL’s industrial water processing plant will be the world’s largest (280,000 bpd) recovering, treating and re-using all the industrial process water.