By Stephen Voss
April 3 (Bloomberg) — Oryx GTL, a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and South Africa’s Sasol Ltd., will this month begin its first product shipment from Qatar’s first gas-to- liquids plant, a month later than planned, a spokesman said.
The $950,000 million Oryx venture in Ras Laffan Industrial City had previously planned to send its first fuel cargo by the end of the first quarter.
“The first shipment is ready; it’s just a question of doing the administration and logistics for an April sailing,” said Malcolm Wells, a London-based spokesman for SasolChevron, which is handling product marketing.
Oryx is designed to produce as much as 34,000 barrels a day of synthetic diesel, naphtha and other products, using natural gas as its feedstock. The venture is owned 51 percent by state- run Qatar Petroleum and 49 percent by Sasol.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc started construction of a larger GTL plant in Qatar on Feb. 22, two days after Exxon Mobil Corp. scrapped plans for a similar facility because of high costs and the prioritization of Qatari gas for domestic needs.
Oryx was officially inaugurated in June. Because of start-up difficulties, it didn’t produce its first product until January.
“It’s a startup plant, so it’s a bit like hitting a moving target,” Wells said, referring to the first shipment date.
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Last Updated: April 3, 2007 04:32 EDT
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
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