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by James Exelby on Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Pearl GTL, the worlds largest gas-to-liquids (GTL) project, located at Ras Laffan in Qatar, is 50 percent complete and will start production on time at the end of 2010, Qatar daily the Gulf Times reported on Tuesday.
“We are on schedule for start-up by 2010 end,” Andrew Brown, Qatar country chairman of project partner Shell told the paper.
Pearl GTL is a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell and represents Shell’s single biggest equity investment anywhere in the world. Estimates for the total cost of the project vary between $12billion and $18 billion, up from an original $5 billion.
It will produce about 140,000 barrels per day of GTL products as well as 120,000 bpd of condensate, LPG and ethane from two trains which gas from Qatar’s vast offshore North Field.
Brown said some 35,000 people are now working at the Ras Laffan site, which covers 1.5 square km.
Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah , Qatar’s deputy premier and minister of energy and industry, earlier told the paper that the first train at Pearl GTL project would start in 2010, followed by the second train a year later.
Commenting on the project as a whole, Brown said: “The large-scale project entails a huge investment. But since we will be producing in large quantities, the costs will be lower and hence the project will be a commercial success. We are now educating people worldwide about the benefits of pro-environment gas-to-liquids technology.”
The ceremonial laying of the project’s foundation stone in February 2007 was attended by heir to the British throne, Prince Charles.
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.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
